I suspect that most of the entries on the list got hacked. There are a few exceptions where companies do not honor unsubscribe requests and keep sending you emails or flat out sell your email address.
Here's a list that was collected over many years:
- Cory Doctorow's mailing list (twice)
- bitcard
- Achatzi, CSV direct, easynotebooks, foto-erhard, hivilux - (german online shops)
- dcemu, gbadev
- Dropbox
- funcom
- gawker
- Kimsufi and OVH
- GoodLuckBuy
- Mails listed in WHOIS
- Mails used in Yahoo groups (RIP)
- MiniInTheBox
- monster.com
- moneybookers
- pianostreet
- Usenet (duh)
- Typepad
- UnternHammer