Wired is the bible of the tech-smart set, and it stands to reason that PR pros pitching the publication would be as savvy as its readership. So when the magazine's editor Chris Anderson publicly blacklisted more than 300 PR pros for sending him unwanted pitches via e-mail, it was an embarrassment all around.

While the cacophony of those who supported Anderson are castigating the guilty parties as unrepentant spammers, some of those on the blacklist argue that Anderson's e-mail address was ...