Maybe a little presumptuous I know, that the first plugin I put in is an anti spam plug in! However, I think one of the reluctant bloggers issues is dealing with the morass of spam that is the annoying background noise of the web.
Akismet comes well recommended and is easy to add as a plugin. Simply register on the akismet.com site and make sure that you slide the ‘what it is worth to you’ to zero. I didn’t really want to pay anything in the short term. They send a key via email and it is simple to add into the dashboard.
Now spam managed…:) as if anyone would read it anyway 😀