If you have a frequent spammer to your blog and have been unable to prevent them from posting comment spam then the following should in effect stop them. order allow,deny deny from 89.149.205.199 allow from all Add the above code to your htaccess file in the root of your site. Change the IP address to reflect your biggest spammer followed closely by comma if you have several spammers and this will simply deny them further access to your blog. We were receiving over 20 spam comments to our site and since adding this little bit of code there has been none.
Askimet just wasn't producing the goods unfortunately! This little code has worked wonders for killing off my 2 big spammers.
This is only useful for IPs that don't varies, but what I get are spammers with a lot of different IPs.