About a month ago, my occasional trickle of spam was just starting to increase (it was going into moderation, but it's still a a pain to go through and delete it all, beyond a certain level, isn't it?). So I installed a nifty WP plugin that blocks spam. Just in time, as it turned out. Anyway, it was set to send me an email each time it blocked a spam comment, and there was something peculiarly satisfying about seeing all these spammers who just couldn't get through. Lovely. Kill kill kill! (I turned off the email message thing after a bit though, once I was fairly sure it wasn't catching people I did want to talk to.) So I know exactly how you feel.