2/8/2010 GamesChart's Barry White Responds (redux)

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GamesChart's Barry White Responds (redux)

Last week I did a some coverage ofGamesChart and it sparked a little controversy. It seems that one of the principals behind the new venture is none other than Barry White from the now defunct GameJacket. You can't forget Barry as he has the single best name in the games business. Anyway, while Steve and I had nothing but good fortune working with Game Jacket, there are quite a few who were owed money when the company finally went south. It seems that some people have also been receiving emails directly from Barry about GamesChart and he was being accused of 'spamming' people who do not want to receive this email. It is fair for people to be upset about supposed spam, especially when the terms of the Game Jacket user agreement stated that they would not sell or use the email list for anything other than GameJacket related correspondence.

So, my first question for Barry was where he was getting the email addresses he was sending to because 8bitrocket had been a long time member of GameJacket and we did not receive any spam email from him. Here is his response:

8bitrocket: Barry, we did not receive any email(s) from you about GamesChart. Where did the list come from that you are sending to?...[more]

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