Wired blogger Bruce Sterling is the latest staffer there to issue an appeal to end the PR spam assault on his inbox.

In a post titled, "I'm Suffering An Evil Tidal Wave of Blogsurfing Public Relations Spam," Bruce writes:

Man, no wonder Chris Anderson lost his temper with these people. They pounce instantly now. If I blogged about teflon frying pans, I'd get three marketing droids by morning all eager to exploit my grass-roots word-of-mouth blogging network to promote their &*&^$$%# frying pans.

He then follows up by adding commentary to a pitch from Virtela Communications, even including - gasp - the PR person's phone number. To read the full pitch, click here.