I have been a programmer, a systems analyst, and am now the network manager for an Application Service Provider on the Internet.  I am not so much an expert on the Internet as a Jack-of-all-trades.  I am certainly willing to consider the possibilities, but I would like those possibilities explained technically and fully, not emotional rhetoric.  From my own experience with the exposure of my email address (that I use ONLY at Rendo) to spammers, I am fairly certain that the exposure is coming from Renderosity.  Or very nearby.  

I do NOT think Renderosity is selling my email address.  I have always found the folks at Renderosity to be quite professional.  I don't believe that they would do anything that lowbrow.

But I DO believe that the email is being exposed and compromised (unintentionally) from Renderosity's side of the fence.

I have a SEPARATE email addres for all my major shopping sites (Rendo, DAZ, Amazon, Buy.com PC Connection, etc.)  If MY computer were compromised I would expect to receive email addressed to several (or all) of those addresses.  But I don't.  Only to my Rendo address.

My email address is at the domain of my employer's company.  I am the manager of that email system (we have our own onsite email server).  I can change my email address at will.  I can have as many email addresses as I want.  If our company email server was compromised, all our employees' email addresses would be compromised.  But they aren't  Only my Rendo address.

I have recently changed my Rendo email address.  That was about a week ago.  Today I began receiving spam email addressed to that Rendo address.  During the past week (since I set up the new email address), I have received at that Rendo address ONLY emails that were sent by Renderosity.  NOT from any Rendo members.  I have SENT NO emails FROM that address to ANYONE.

The way I see it, either (1) someone is able to get into the Rendo database to see the member profiles, or (2) someone has a program sitting either just inside or just outside the Renderosity gateway / firewall that is watching all Rendo packets that are heading for the Internet.  Is there any third possibility???  If so, I'd be interested to hear it.