I was quite shocked to discover that within 24 hours of making a private e-mail box address at my own tightly secure ISP server I received this e-mail:

SACHSELOTTO COMPANY congratulation!!! you have won one million euro.contact your claims agent for processing of your funds.

in my new private box. There is no way that my own ISP would make my personal e-mail addresses available to any search engine e-bots, and indeed that has never happened in the years I have had my service.  This leaves me thinking that somehow the e-bots have found a way to scoop up the addresses of members here at Renderosity although again I don't understand how that could happen either.

Of course I can and I will go and immediately change my own special new e-mail for this site, and see if I can put a stop to this.  The whole point of getting out of Yahoo was to get away from this garbage and establish a very private secure e-mail address for my most favorite web site forum/store on the net!

Does anyone have any reactions suggestions or ideas about this?  I do not get any spam at any of my other private ISP addresses, of which I have just made up several to take the place of all the yahoos I had as well as having many boxes via my own .com for years.

Please understand this is in no way a criticism of renderosity but a search to find out why this may happen.

Thank you for any help or insight.

Life Requires Assembly and we all know how THAT goes!