I want to retrieve all comments directed *to* a particular user (rather than comments posted *by* that user) within a particular time period (e.g. last 24 hours).  I don't want just "mentions", which are easy enough, but also comments posted on their questions and answers.  This is technically possible - by retrieving a list of all posts and then fetching comments for each of those posts.  However, when [certain users][1] have posted ~12.5k answers on one site, it becomes very inefficient (~125 requests if the [limit is 100 IDs per request][2]) to retrieve what might be only one or two comments.

Is there some better solution that I have missed or this the only option we have at the moment?


  [1]: https://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet
  [2]: https://stackapps.com/questions/1170/url-length-limits-have-been-increased