Hey Robert,

I don't see much manual spam, and -- in fact -- any manual spam attempts I do see are often caught by Akismet too. Oddly enough, your comment was marked as spam -- so I guess the filter is quite aggressive.

Perhaps it wouldn't work on a busy site? However, for this site, it seems to do that trick and requires very little oversight.

And, yes, if I need to, I can manually publish or delete any of the comments that come in.

Cheers,

Phillip.