Sean Walther's Blog

One more plugin to use is “cookies for comments”. People using automatic spamming software are detected by it. A browser takes cookies, automatic spammer software does not.
Let them at least take the effort to visit your site for leaving a usefull comment and make traffic and time on the site.
Enjoy!

Blog spammers are twits who deserve to be twreddled and not tweeted on Twitter…

Now if someone could produce a plugin that we could all upload that had a memory of blocked ip addresses that could be useful. Akismeet seems to do a reasonably good job but it is really necessary to monitor every comment before it gets placed on your blog.

As for me standard WordPress tool makes good job.
But anyway I tend to review comments marked as spam cause sometimes there might be a real comment.

Usually I do not get these typical primitive spam comments. Sometimes comment may be very amusing,
i.e. read my
http://flodner.com/the-funniest-spam-comment-ever/

I agree it would be nice to have a piece of software that would block spammers from posting via an ip address, but what if a spammer is spoofing their ip?

I think the best way is the old fashion way. Read the comments to see if it is spam or not. Software is still just software, they are not perfect.