After posting about a reader's strange experience with unwanted Xbox 360 Live spam, Microsoft shot us an email to officially say they had nothing to do with it.

"The recent communication to the customer was NOT sanctioned by Xbox Live. Microsoft's position is that the community will and should manage itself, through providing gamers with a voice they in turn take ownership and responsibility for their experiences.

Supporting this, Xbox Live has a robust feedback system in place for
situations exactly like this. If required, gamers can file a complaint
in the system to report inappropriate behavior or language, which
Microsoft will follow-up and investigate fully."

Funny enough, a few hours later we received a second complaint of Live spam, also about someone pimping Mission Impossible 3.

I just wanted to mention that I also received a message about MI3 a week or so back. They said something like "Where'd you get that cool Tom Cruise gamer picture?" and it was from someone with the name HM3 major. Ironically enough I had the Penny Arcade picture of the devil in at the time, and thought it was some random guy being funny...

Hmm, sounds like someone's hired 360ers to spam people about the movie. I hope Microsoft takes the iniative to look into this new form of guerilla marketing. —Brian Crecente

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