Magic Spam Filters—Required to Not Go Insane

[Thelemic_Noun]

So this concept occurred to me when the Sandpoint women started dropping hints to the PCs and the arcane caster in the party pointed out that he could use message at will to verbally harass literally anyone within 110 feet for up to 10 minutes at a time, and not even breaking line of sight stopped it so long as at least one window or door on the building remained cracked.

Message requires line of sight to establish and has a somewhat limited range (roughly a football field maximum).

However, sending does not. Sending can also cross planar boundaries, though with a small chance to fail.

It seems that, once a person becomes famous enough, they will be perpetually inundated with magical messages from complete strangers.

Imagine being a famous person, and receiving telepathic gibberish, lies, sycophantic fawning, hate mail, and death threats directly into your mind from around the world and the far corners of the infinite planes every hour of every day.

How do you avoid going insane when that kind of pressure gets turned on you? Or the people close to you?

Sending doesn't allow saving throws or spell resistance, so spell immunity wouldn't work. A detailed physical description of the character makes the caster familiar enough to cast the spell. Also, they may occasionally need to receive a sending with useful content. And antimagic field is overkill.

So, how do characters cope?

[the David]

7th level clerics and 9th level wizards are smart enough not to bother their idols with stuff like that. There aren't that many casters able to cast sending anyway, so I'd be surprised if it ever happened.

I could see a BBEG doing this to heckle the party.

[Zhayne]

the David wrote:

7th level clerics and 9th level wizards are smart enough not to bother their idols with stuff like that.

And you can probably count the number of those on the face of the planet on your fingers.

[Thelemic_Noun]

But remember, this isn't just the planet.

This includes all those outer planes with outsiders that get the spell as a spell-like ability or have racial cleric casting.

[Kirth Gersen]

It's not specifically stated that they do, so this isn't RAW, but I'd probably allow nondetection and mind blank to work against sendings, and I'd let detect scrying allow the subject to screen his or her calls, so to speak.

[Bob Bob Bob]

Well, the first step is make your demiplane hostile to sending spells. "If the creature in question is not on the same plane of existence as you are, there is a 5% chance that the sending does not arrive. (Local conditions on other planes may worsen this chance considerably.)" The rest is just a matter of learning to ignore it. I know someone who recently got hearing aids and he didn't even notice them on the drive home, then suddenly could hear every little noise of the house (water in the air conditioner, pipes, etc.). This is because he could already subconsciously tune out the sounds of driving and the city. Presumably a high level wizard is already used to this, and with the line in the spell "The subject recognizes you if it knows you." he can clearly easily pick and choose who to actually pay attention to.