I go to great lengths to prevent spam in my EMail box. I hate it. But this wouldn't bother me for a second; one click & it's gone. Plus, nine times out of ten, it's something I'd probably like to know about if it's for something I've bought. I'm contacted by vendors regarding products I've bought 2-8 times a week. Eighty percent of the time it's EMail. 20% IM. I've only gotten 3 of these one-to-many IM "broadcasts". The rest were personal messages. Of all the messages I've recieved from vendors, about 40% were simple courtious "thank you's" with contact info in case of questions or problems, the rest were either info on how to obtain an update, an offer of a free add-on, or an invitation to beta-test something new. Two were notices of another associated product. I don't find any of these objectionable. The marketplace doesn't give out any personal contact info to the vendors except my user-name. The IM's & Emails messages are always sent thru Renderosity. There's an opt-out process to prevent ever getting them. I don't see the problem here.