I finally got around to doing something about the comment spam for this here little blog. With a minute of Jeremy's time, MT-Blacklist was installed, and the process of deleting old comment spam was initiated.

The task was daunting. 27,900 comments. 27,700 of which are likely spam. And to make things more difficult, the cgi script would timeout if the number of posts being serached was too big. Through a lot of scanning, I've managed to get rid of over 20,000 comments. But still have a few thousand left to go. The blacklist.txt file will need to be tweaked to get rid of the rest, but at least the problem won't get any worse.