Pre-Face: We run the public nameserver d3.surbl.org and it is located in Virginia as is our company. I wonder whether things like surbl (I can definitely see Razor) could be extrapolated to increase the venue of this type of law? At the very worst, I think this is a definite "spammer beware".

Anyway, after staying up till the wee hours after the election, I missed this news article about 2 spammers being convicted of 3 felony's each in Virginia this week. One sentenced to 9 years in jail, one got $7500 fine.

However, one particularly interesting note. This case only accounted for SPAM sent for less than a month and 3 days of email over 10K each day were the reason for the 3 felony convictions.

Important to note, these were extraditions from North Carolina where they SPAMmed users at AOL. It looks like using or sending to Virginia-based servers will be enough for felony convictions.

Regards, KAM

Some sparse info here:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23622-2004Nov3.html

More sentencing info here:

http://www.computerweekly.com/articles/article.asp?liArticleID=134815&li...