Thanks for taking a look at the data. I hope the instructions were clear and you were able to load the sql file into your db quickly.

@Diana Coman

Okay. There is certainly a lingering "god how the hell do I analyze these 'oceans of shit'" and I justified delaying answering that question by convincing myself the right way to move forward was to reach an undefined level of "content" with improving the tools I use to log so that I can be logging in parallel while I answered the question.

Once I have a system I am content with for assigning the next channels to my VMs running TheFleet, I will plan how to analyze the collected data.

The transparent meaning of the above being of course that you have no idea how to analyse the data, you feel quite overwhelmed by the idea to analyse the data to start with and therefore you'll spend instead whatever amount of time on polishing and futzing with everything and anything else rather than... analyse the damned data.

Sure, "a system I am content with" is such a great way of putting it, nobody ever could accuse you of not wanting to... being content, right?

Just stop all the futzing about and fleets and whatnots. You've got some data already - unless you can look at that data and report on it properly, there is no point (let me make this clear: THERE IS NO POINT) in getting even more such "data", all right? There's no magic that will do that part for you so you can just do the other and feel good about it. I already told you what basics are needed - if it's not clear, ask in chan.

Looking forward to that, really, I'm curious whether you'll find anything worth digging into. I had a quick glance at the data you posted and the amount of noise looks staggeringly high, mostly warez and idle chatter. Not that it's any surprise, mind you, most IRC networks were already starting to look like pigsties back in 2004; not like 1998 IRC was a place of great culture or anything, lol, but at least you didn't have to swim through oceans of shit to find something interesting...