Thanks to everyone who recommended Akismet for helping me fight comment spam. There has been a drastic (complete) reduction in e-mails sent to me alerting me to a new comment being posted, and the comment being spam.
I just checked and Akismet had caught 303 just today and I wouldn’t even have known about them (no e-mails) if I hadn’t gone in update my blog. AWESOME!!
It’s a good day for being a blogger.