response 24 of 108:

Jan 15 01:49 UTC 2004

I don't think spamming conferences has been that big a problem.  I've 
only seen a handful of incidents of it in the entire time I've been 
here, and in most of them nothing was done anyway.  To the extent it is 
a problem, retiring the offending items would solve it.

I don't really see any evidence that there are legions of spammers out 
there just waiting to pounce when we revise our item-removal policy.