Why potentially important "spam" should not be ignored

I found out about an important anti-cyberbullying law only because I engaged in a conversation here with a commenter whom I detest. I did not previously learn about this law despite spending several hours reading material about cyberbullying. I detest this commenter because (1) he is a self-appointed cyberbullying blogosphere goon who urges bloggers to censor my comments and the comments of others and (2) he clutters up this blog with pettifoggery. This incident shows the folly of cutting off one's nose to spite one's face by blocking or ignoring potentially important "spam" just because one thinks that the sender is stupid, ignorant, obnoxious, or whatever. By "potentially important 'spam'," I mean "spam" related to one's job, organization, or special interests. And I am using "spam" here in a very broad sense to include "forum spam" as well as "email spam". And a lot of people define the word "spam" as meaning any unsolicited communication, so by that definition anyone who sends unsolicited communications is a "spammer." One could make a major mistake, miss a big opportunity, or be greatly embarrassed because of ignorance about something that one might have learned about through potentially important "spam." One does not learn anything by burying one's head in the sand.

The discussion of this anti-cyberbullying law (the law's title is "preventing cyberstalking" but the law covers all cyberbullying) starts here.

I am also a regular reader of Fatheaded Ed Brayton's Dispatches from the Culture Wars blog, even though this jerk kicked me off his blog permanently just because he disliked my literal interpretation of a federal court rule, and BTW he did not give me even a single chance to respond to his objection to my interpretation.

If all emails had descriptive subject lines like they are supposed to have, then it would take just a minute or two to delete a day's unwanted spam or the unwanted spam could just be left undeleted and completely ignored. However, instead of promoting the use of descriptive subject lines, many opponents of spam are just trying to find more-sophisticated ways of automatically deleting spam so that they never have to see it -- never mind that something important might accidentally be automatically deleted. The main reason why we have an email spam non-problem is that there are too many lazy bums out there whose fingers are too lazy to delete unwanted emails and whose neck and eyeball muscles are too lazy to skip over unwanted emails.
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