lesbentley opened this issue on Jul 29, 2011 ยท 28 posts
bagginsbill posted Fri, 29 July 2011 at 10:36 PM
I use disposable email addresses for this reason. I have given Rendo, RDNA, Daz, every airline, travel site, and pretty much every person I've traded 3D files with, a unique disposable address. They all forward to my real address, which I give to nobody. When one gets hacked, I know who to tell that they got hacked. You are not alone.
So far, the following companies have caused me to receive spam. In each case, I shut down the associated disposable address and either gave them a new one or did not give them my address again.
Renderosity
Orbitz
American Airlines
T J Maxx
There were also two individuals - buddies from Rendo forums - but I will not embarrass them by naming them.
This is nothing to feel bad about. You can't avoid this. It is a statistical certainty. I'm just glad that I have managed to keep my account spam-free for 10 years now.
Should anybody want to do the same, the service is free at:
Renderosity forum reply notifications are wonky. If I read a follow-up in a thread, but I don't myself reply, then notifications no longer happen AT ALL on that thread. So if I seem to be ignoring a question, that's why. (Updated September 23, 2019)