[Porsche-O-Phile]

In all seriousness though, spam IS criminal. It costs businesses (and individuals) billions a year in lost productivity, required upgrades to network infrastructure, etc. It's not benign and not just a prank. Any parallels between it and simple "junk mail" is incidental at best. Next time your 4 or 5 year old kid starts getting ads for Viagra, "get a bigger dick", "lots of XXX passwords" or other crap, I doubt you'll think it's so benign also. . .

I don't look at it as trivializing a violent criminal's sentence, I look at it as "hey, a piece-of-schit spammer got the book thrown at them. Good". It's all in the way you look at it. Yes, I'd like to see the murderer/rapist get an equal or greater sentence, but if the alternative is not nailing the spammers at all, I say it's better than nothing and sock it to 'em.