It seems to be a common practice now in the US among "cool" techie people. They post, on the wild in the Internet, the e-mail adresses from the PR people that annoy them and write e-mail that they don't want (or like).

The last one has been Chris Anderson, editor in-chief of the mythical magazine Wired, following the trace that others such as Mark Frauenfelder from Boing Boing left behind.

He is fed up with receiving e-mail from people that don't know who are writing to. he receives 300+ e-mails a day that are not spam, so he states in his blog:

"Lazy flacks send press releases to the Editor in Chief of Wired because they can't be bothered to find out who on my staff, if anyone, might actually be interested in what they're pitching. Fact: I am an actual person, not a team assigned to read press releases and distribute them to the right editors and writers."

I can understand him, but I think that publishing all these e-mails publicly on the Internet, at the mercy of spambots harvesting all of them for their evil activity, is very unfair and in fact, in Spain (the country I'm currently living) is illegal. C'mon man, just black-list them, but not publish their e-mails.

In Spain the LOPD (simmilar to the CAN-SPAM act in the US but a bit more restrictive) will fine him with about 30.000 euros (around US $42.000) for each complaint received by each one of these people. Wow! He would have thought twice on doing that! :-)