Askimet integration for blogs

I've been getting a lot of posts recently from users posting spam. Seems that spammers are getting ever more sophisticated in their link farming efforts.

I'm pretty sure that the posts are from real users so tactics that normally work to prevent bot registrations are failing. The users are even choosing avatars relevant to my sites content so it's not really possible to spot them - not that I really want to moderate new users - it is simply not an option for me. I've ended up having to moderate all new posts which is a massive issue time-wise.

I've had a lot of success using askimet on other sites - both on forums and blogs and have enabled it for the blog comments but am really surprised to see that it is not possible to enable it for the posts themselves. This seems like a very necessary feature for a multi-user site.

Not sure if this feature is already on the cards, but I'd like to put a suggestion for it.

Surely it could not be too much work to extend the current code for askimet filtering of comments to include the posts themselves.

Regards

DM.