The intrusion meant some Web site is selling my online address, a definite no-no. So, I give up. I'm letting the spam roll over me like the pureed gelatin it is. Spam is just a technological extension of the commercial forces that brought us billboards, infomercials and QVC host Joan Rivers. Spam is as much a part of our environment as oxygen.
Ads are everywhere.
The unceasing barrage of consumer messages can be enough to make even the most ardent media junkie scramble for a cabin in the woods with nothing to subsist on except nuts, berries and John Denver CDs. Airplane banner ads. Ads on clothing. Ads on cars. Ads on sports stadiums.