Spammed by X-Arcade !

[RayB]

Anyone else here getting the X-Arcade newsletter without ever having subscribed to it?

First they started sending it to my hotmail account (which is the one I use on forums--so, byoac could be the culprit, but so could some other site...)

I unsubscribed, then today I get the damn newsletter to 2 of my "personal" emails (addresses I use for email, but never for forums or web orders or anything like that).

Now not only will I promote "build your own" to people who even consider buying one of their controllers, but I'll also let people know X-arcade are SPAMMERS!
 

[Matthew Anderson]

I too get spammed by Xarcade but my best tracking guess indicates it was GameCab.com who sold me out. If it's not I apologize but again I am pretty sure because it comes to my sneakemail address which I used for my correspondance with gamecab.com .

If you are interested in starting to track your spam take a look at sneakemail.com , it is the ONLY service on the web I pay for it's like 1 or 2 bucks a month and it can tell you where that spam comes from.

Technically you probably opted in when you sent email to GameCab.

Oh and BTW I run an opt in email list with over 2 million folks in it so I am pretty familiar with the laws.

[RayB]

I've never heard of GameCab.com

[saint]

For what it's worth I have never sold or otherwise given out the BYOAC emailing list (technically there isn't any such list but every account has an email address attached to it so I suppose in theory a list could be compiled) nor will I ever do so for love or money. That doesn't stop someone or a bot from harvesting them if you've got them publically showing however . . .

[Stingray]

I got a spam from Xarcade today too, which is the first one I've ever gotten from them. I suspect they have a bot harvesting addresses from here. Just one more reason why Xarcade sucks.

-S

[thebrownshow]

I can't stand their damn newsletters.  The best was their investigative reporting about the Nintendo Wii and their evidence that pointed towards the "secret flap" being a PROJECTOR.  Ridiculous.  The gaming press is full of enough morons and hype mongers, how about leaving it to the professionals.

[Stingray]

The best was their investigative reporting about the Nintendo Wii and their evidence that pointed towards the "secret flap" being a PROJECTOR.

That was one of the stupider rumors of this year.

-S

[Zakk]

That would be cool though.

[thebrownshow]

Zakk... you're not helping!

[RayB]

Cloaking devices, teleportation and time travel would be cool too. 

Somehow I think someone somewhere is manually subscribing people... I don't see how a bot could harvest emails I don't use online, yet the bot knows I'm into MAME cabs?? Weird.

(PS: I believe you saint. These two latest spams are to addresses not used on BYOAC - sure wish i could pinpoint where it happened though)

[NickG]

FWIW, I was receiving the newsletter before I registered here.  So it probably is not BYOAC's fault. I ordered an adapter directly from X-gaming.com site, though.  So that was probably how I was added to their list.  A lot of their "news" is "old news" but today they had a snapshot and a link to a good looking free game.  I personally enjoy their newsletter and today after reading it, I thought to myself this is the right way to spam; with a spoon full of sugar.  My e-mail program could block their
e-mails but i choose not to mark them as spam.

[Zakk]

Zakk... you're not helping!

No, but that WILL be cool!  You can just set it up anywhere there is a vertical surface and start playing!  BEST new innovation in gaming!  I can't wait to get a Wiiiiiiiiiiii!

Where did you say you read that the wii will have a projector built in? 

[Stingray]

So it probably is not BYOAC's fault.

Just to be clear, I never thought this was Saint's fault, other than the fact that Saint runs a great arcade site that I'm addicted to.

Anyway it's only one click to never have to see another email from them again.

* Stingray clicks

-S

[RayB]

Anyway it's only one click to never have to see another email from them again.

Yeah that's what I did with the one going to my hotmail account, months ago. Then, as I said, I suddenly get it to TWO of my personal accounts. You can understand the impression I get of X-arcade when I stop one and then they just multiply elsewhere, right? Hopefully this is the end of it (though I have MANY more email addresses that whoever is responsible might harvest)

[Stingray]

You can understand the impression I get of X-arcade when I stop one and then they just multiply elsewhere, right?

Absolutely. Anyone who sends unsolicited spam should have their speedbags removed with a pair of vice grips.

-S

[horseboy]

Why don't you ask this guy.

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=profile;u=5678

[Dervacumen]

FYI -
I registered with X-Arcade when I bought one pre-BYOAC days, opted out of their newsletter, and have never gotten a newsletter.
Sounds like they bought a list.