Yay! Someone IS gathering to fight this major issue. From Technorati's blog:

Key industry players such as Ask Jeeves, Feedster, Google, Microsoft, Six Apart, Tucows, WordPress, and Yahoo! have all confirmed their attendance. Technical members of products involved in the fight against web spam are invited to attend the Web Spam Summit. If you or another member of your team would like to attend please send a prompt reply to rsvp@technorati.com with some introductory information about you and your product including a paragraph about each of the following topics.

• Problem Statement: describe a form of web spam currently facing your product.
• Current Solutions: describe a current solution you have implemented and how it works.
• In Development: describe a solution you are working on and why it will be better.

The summit will not be broadcast. This privacy allows the best possible technical members directly involved in the fight against web spam to attend the summit with full candor.

I want to be there just to listen, because it's an issue that is important to me. I don't know if listeners (especially blabby ones like me) are invited. I'll wait to see the results. I'm just happy that a task force has been struck up!