Well, I've made it to 100 in only 6 months. I've installed a new plugin called Bad Behavior, that is supposed to block SPAM bot access attempts, which I guess appear as distinctly different accesses from regular folks. If you get blocked, I apologize, but I've been forced to look through 100+ comment SPAM messages a day in Akismet and I'm more afraid that some legitimate content will get flushed accidentally at this point, so I've stepped it up a notch. Time will tell if this solution meets its promises.