Well, the Math plugin turned out to be useless – I received as much Spam after I plugged it in as I did beforehand (though I don’t understand why). I’ve turned on the Akismet Plugin and, so far anyway, it seems to be working. But I don’t know if I like it because I still have to sift through the Spam it blocked to see if there are any comments that should have been posted. I’ll hope that people post a bunch of comments in the next week or so (hint hint) and see if they all get through. if some of them get erroneously blocked (and I have to manually release them), then maybe I’ll look for yet another plugin.
Sigh…
I heartily recommend Dr. Dave’s Spam Karma for your spam-squelching needs. It’s never sunk a good comment, and lets maybe one or two spams in every thousand through.
Thank you AA. I think what I’m going to do is to let Akismet work for me the rest of this week. Then I’ll give your suggestion a try and let that run for several days too and see which one I like better…
Thanks again…