After lurking for about a decade I decided to join tonight so I could tell my story on this thread. Saturday night I kept seeing a spammer posting hundreds of messages on many newsgroups. The messages were disjointed phrases making no real sentences. They contained many references to 'FBI' 'CIA' 'DEA' 'president' 'kill' 'black bags' 'nuclear' 'virulent' 'trains' 'crytography' ,etc. etc. After reading them for several hours I made the call to the FBI hotline. I had first tracked down the posters' ISP, IP, name and location.
I got the same kind of detached, mellow response from the FBI operator. BUT!! Within an hour the posts stopped. This was nearly MIDNIGHT on Saturday. Sunday morning all the posts had been pulled from the ISP. The poster has not been heard from in the last four days. Take heart, the FBI is following up and very quickly!