That’s my testimonial you quote. I use Akismet on a number of blogs but as mine ranked better it was getting more spam and the spam WAS getting past Akismet. I loaded up Bad Behaviour as well and between the two of them very little gets past these days. Maybe one or two a week, and then they’re generally so clever that I’m happy to have them as false negatives. Usually they’re humans trying blog spam tools like BlogCommenter – it seems to like me