On the plus side...

[jducoeur]

... what makes the situation a pain in the ass is that the spams are mixed in with a lot of legitimate edits that I want to preserve. The Rolls are old enough (and crappy enough Perl code) that I often discount them as a minor and disused project. It's kind of neat to see how many people are still using them on a day-to-day basis -- that makes it feel like the work of cleaning them up is worthwhile...