So, in an effort to avoid blogging I've been despamming Munuviana. I finally got that pesky keno trackback that's been bugging me---yay! I also seached the last 50,000 comments and found dozens of spam comments to delete. I tried to seach the last 99,999 comments, but it timed out....
Anyone know how many comments we have in all of munu? Just curious, really...
UPDATE: Found 5 more running 60k.....
Another Update: found 5 more at 70k!
Oops!!! accidently deleted one of Pixy's comments. Guess I got carried away...Sorry, oh Great and Powerful Lord of Munu! Anyway, I timed out again at 80,000 comments, so I guess I'm done anyway. But it was fun while it lasted!
There are over 400,000 comments in the system. MT Blacklist can scan a couple of thousand comments per minute. (Which is appallingly slow - but then we have thousands of blacklist entries...) Because it produces no output while scanning, and because the web server times out and kills it if something takes more than a couple of minutes to produce output, I can't scan more than the last 3,000 comments or so.
You can, because when I do it it runs across all the blogs, but for you it only searches the ones you have access to. So when it searches 60,000 comments it actually skips most of them.
I set up a seperate de-spamming user to focus on one blog at a time, but it's too much trouble to do much with it.
Posted by Pixy Misa at October 15, 2005 12:58 PMDude! 400K???? I wonder how many of those are actually spam?
Posted by Susie at October 15, 2005 05:04 PMNot a lot. A couple of percent, I think. Most of the spam gets whacked sooner or later.
Check the post number on this entry: 126,285. You guys have been busy over the past couple of years. 
If you printed out the full text of the munu blogs (post and comments), it would run to about fifty times the length of The Lord of the Rings.
Posted by Pixy Misa at October 15, 2005 05:29 PMMost of the spam these days seems to be trackbacks, anyway.
Posted by Pixy Misa at October 15, 2005 05:30 PMYeah, I usually get about 4 or 5 in a short period before the anti-spam stuff kicks in and blocks it.
Posted by Eric at October 15, 2005 06:09 PM