It has been about six weeks since I wrote my review of Akismet. Things had been going fine, but the last week or so has seen a large increase in the number of comment spam items that are not being caught, especially yesterday and today. I’ve asked about this via their contact form to see if this is something unique to me or if there is something going on at Akismet.
UPDATE Fri 24 Mar 2006 @ 4:30pm: I suspect the problems I’ve been having are related to Akismet database problem that was just reported. Interesting that the problem seems to involve taking too long to get a response back for free users.