This has been some great information here. I had been considering what I was going to do about akisment since I had been seeing a fair bit of talk lately about whether or not it is still free. Seems to me it was once very easy to get I got mine originally a couple years back from my WordPress.com account and don't recall ever being asked all those questions.

Nonetheless I do think I will be switching over to Antispambee especially after seeing some of its great features like the honypot api and the ability to block country iso's looks like it will be great going to run it for a while and see what happens.

@Jeffro thanks for the great post.

John Overall