From the Virginia prosecutor and Slashdot on harsh sentences for spammers

In the wake of the nine years imprisonment recommended for the NC spammer in the Virginia case, Slashdot has this thread on the topic of harsh prison sentences for spammers, which includes a link to this interesting article written by Russell McGuire, one of the prosecutors in the Virginia case, who is employed as an assistant attorney general in the Computer Crime Unit of the Office of the Attorney General of Virginia.