if you think back to when this subject was started, i think the title was something like "renderosity has sold our e-mails to scammers" or similar.

now if you look at it from the view of a person that makes money from selling e-mail addresses, you would expect to encounter some that can do it (harvest e-mails), and others than can do it very well, it could be that rendo' has attracted someone that can do it very well, and that in them doing it very well,  means that even if you change your e-mail addy, you still get hit within hours.'cause that is what they do.

i guess the people that do this stuff are a bit like the people/vermin that sit around of an evening inventing viruses that will come and destroy your computer, they are well versed in what they do, and he could easily have an equally well versed e-mail harvesting counter-part.

sounds plausible to me anyway.