I've been on holidays for two weeks. And come back to find roughly ten thousand trackbacks. And of course, all notification mails were whitelisted, so I had ten thousand insane mails as well. Oh well. The mails weren't a problem. mailfilter is quite a handy tool. But what was quite awful was killing the trackbacks in serendipity. A lot of them came from a common IP, but Firefox wasn't able to handle the enourmous page length that resulted from showing roughly five thousand comments. Using syllables such as "er" or "sl" in the URL filter I was able to partition the comments in sets so that Firefox would display the comments totally, so that I could then reverse the selection and kill the comments.
What is really annoying though is that one can't filter on an IP basis in the anti-spam criteria. Perhaps this is just a missing feature in the version
1on.de (my blog hoster) is using. Speaking of which, that I still can't post to their forum (no login) and that there is no e-mail contact at all isn't exactly making me happy.
