Quote - For me, the spam started some time (couple of weeks? a month?) after joining the crit group.

The Critique Group started on March 21, 2007.  I joined right away.

At the time I was a co-ordinator and using an @renderosity.com email address.  As soon as I started to receive spam on that account I posted about it in the staff forums and that's when I was told it was due to changes in the mail server and that "everyone" receives spam. Unfortunately I do not remember the date I made that post so I don't know if it was before or after the Critique Group started.

I think I left the staff position towards the end of March and when I replaced my email address I initially used my junk mail hotmail account. But found that the ebots from here were overwhelming it. So I changed the email address to my @mts.net ISP one.

Here are a couple of posts I made on April 4th and April 7th when I initially started to get spam to that email account.

[ http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2692394

](http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2692394)http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2690339&page=16#message_2949669Upon a suggestion that I try gmail for the Critique Group, I dug out my gmail information and set up the account for POP3 and changed my email here to the gmail account.  That account was set up and used for a short time for personal things around the time google introduced gmail,  but never received spam because I didn't use it around the internet.  All of the emails that were in it when I stopped using it were still there, and there was no spam mail in it.  Not long after I used the @gmail.com address here, I started to get spam to that one too.

The bots that I had coming to me as part of the Critique Group were:

1.  Notifcations of people adding me to favourites
2,  Notifications of comments to my images

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi