In reply to Jeff Chandler.

Jeff, I had the silent discard option was on from the moment I upgraded to 3.0, but it wasn't discarding anything... that 1200 spam comments per day just kept piling up, and that's why I went looking for something additional to help Akismet out.

Now if only Akismet would be useful and give us the option to turn off the comments meta, something else the silent discard was no help with.