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tedster - 3:18 pm on Mar 25, 2010 (gmt 0)
Matt Cutts has now given his video response to this question - see this video [youtube.com].
As a quick summary, Matt says that if you catch and fix the hack pretty quickly, and if your rankings are still fine, then you "might" not need to submit a reconsideration request.