Good to see the spammers are taking time off from making all our lives miserable to actually have a convention. The DM Days New York Conference and Expo was held on the 2nd to the 4th of June, and gathered spammers from all over to discuss ways of reaching people through spam, and words that can no longer be used. (Including: limited-time, free, opportunity and only)
I think such events are excelent ideas. Next year I hope to be there to do some LARTing with 2 by 4s. ;-)
Maybe we can kill 2 birds with 1 stone(pardon the pun) and have a LARTing convention in the same building. In America, even spammers are free.