Hi all - here's another data point. In case you didn't read all the way up to here, I started getting spam when I made my first-ever purchase a couple weeks ago.

9 days ago I changed my rendo email to a new disposable address, and left the old one just counting emails instead of forwarding them.

In the 9 days, my old address has seen 31 spams, while my new address has seen zero spam and 42 legitimate site notifications.

This is not proof by any means, but I am strongly inclined to suspect the marketplace notifications have been compromised. For years before purchasing I never got spam on my rendo address, and since my new address has never made a purchase, I get no spam on it.

Prior to making my first and only purchase, I had received well over 3500 ebots and other emails from rendo without a single spam.

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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)