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Damn You Blog Spammers!

September 7th, 2004 · 2 Comments

My MT blog database has gotten too big for mother to run the MT-blacklist.cgi despam script on 25 entries before timeout. It wouldn’t even do 10. Now I have to do 5 entries at a time, and it’s getting tedious.

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2 responses so far ↓

  • 1 James // Sep 7, 2004 at 9:21 pm

    ???

    How many did you get? The latest spam comments should be the latest ones and just a simple de-spam should pick them all up in a single run without the need to scan through the rest of the comments.

  • 2 tin_the_fatty // Sep 11, 2004 at 1:15 pm

    There were more than 30 blog spam entries from the same spammer.

    The problem was it took a relatively long time to delete the spam AND rebuild the relevant entries, it timed out before the job was finished. PITA.