it's hawkfyr's theory, not mine.  he drew a diagram which convinced me, for all that's worth (which isn't a whole lot, I admit).

again, my main point with my post is that everyone who is adding to this thread with "got x from rendo, got 2 spam within 5 minutes" is wasting time.  the only way that'd be of any worth is if they were also changing their email address here to a unique semi-random string EACH TIME they receive a rendo notice.

most people, I'd imagine, don't have that ability.  I do, but I'm not going to be bothered to change it, as my spam filters already handle way more spam than I might attribute to yet another spammer who may have lifted my address from rendo traffic.

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