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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.
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