[spamming in chat rooms]

Apparently there is miscommunication here.

The chat rooms I am talking of are the Gameday chat rooms linked to the Gameday feature used by MLB.com. The chat rooms ( not message boards, but live real time chat ) are actually created by Prospero, but their customer/tech support doesn't really exist ( there are e-mail or snail mail addresses, but they don't acknowledge that they even have received people's mail ), and MLB takes no responsibility for the chat rooms.

The spammer comes into the rooms and advertises the Fightingsioux.com and Siouxsports.com websites; it also claims that certain baseball franchises have signed an agreement for the spammer to provide updates on events for the fightingsioux ( I believe these agreements don't even exist ).

The bot tends to duplicate itself, it comes in as Siouxdome, spams, comes in again as Siouxdome_2, spams, Siouxdome leaves, Siouxdome_3 enters and spams, Siouxdome_2 leaves.....etc.

[spamming in chat rooms]

Definitely a robot. In recent months, services have come into existence that, for a modest fee, will spam an advertising message onto hundreds of thousands of message boards. At first, we dealt with it primarily be deleting the offending message. Late this week, I modified the rules of the board such that new users can't post until manually approved by me. I hope to take additional measures soon, as I determine additional ways to block the robots without interfering with legitimate new users.

The problem is not that the spam is here, on this message board; it's in chat rooms that are run by a company that MLB hired ( Prospero ).

I was hoping that someone here knew who the spammer is.

[spamming in chat rooms]

I'm a baseball fan who spends some time in chat rooms. I've noticed a person, or robot who comes into these chat rooms and makes a nuisance of himself/itself with a flood of advertsing for this website and the Fightingsioux.com website. Is there someone here who knows what i'm talking about, and can do something about this?