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Fighting against spammers is an everlasting task, imho. So a global working solution do not work at all.
But we should consider what our spam problems (currently) are: Most annoying is the "Babaji vashikaran problem solution" spams. Others are "package movers". The first one's could easily be fixed with some heuristics, imho. I think the spammers are not really smart. The "package movers" spams are a bit better, but they could also be easily prevented with some heuristics, imho.
Related to the akismet service:
The users IP and User agent is something that will ever be send during internet surfing. So in general they aren't problematic. E.g. if one surfs to akismet.com, the information is stored (or not) in their database. The problem i have with this service, is that i couldn't find a legal notice, or similar notice, which describes how this information is used beside checking of spam.
The service GunChleoc proposed in #11 is a bit better, because the information could be checked by our self by comparing user IP (and other information) against their database. But i 'believe' it does not solve our particular problems. But we may give it a try...