I finally upgraded to WordPress 2.1, with the now famous 2.1.2 codebase (famous among WP users, I guess.)
And the asshat spammer is still trying to beat Akismet, with 428 more comment spam since the original 376, for a total of 704 between 9 am on March 16 and now, 8:28 pm on Thursday March 22. He is losing, because even if he makes it through Akismet (which he is not, not in the slightest), he is going to end up in my moderation queue, and I’ll flag his trash as spam.
As a famous Texan governor asshat already said earlier this decade: Bring it on!