> As soon as I put my wants/interests out on the internet it's almost certainly going to become chum for spammers, dodgy recruiters, the GRAFT and so on. i.e. R

> As soon as I put my wants/interests out on the internet it's almost certainly going to become chum for spammers, dodgy recruiters, the GRAFT and so on. i.e. Repurposed to ends antithetical to my original intent. This is likely true when the conference is open registration, but generally not true when it's a closed conference that just so happens to be on the internet - practically nobody who wishes to be part of the conference enough to invest time/money/energy into getting an invite are going to then sell your data on to spammers. It's the same with random irc channels without public logging - while everyone could be logging everything you say to use against you later, in practice this just doesn't happen in channels of 100-200 people.