Hi Robert,
I've been trying to put that who situation out of my mind, frankly, but I still stand by my words. In fact, I've had a few people e-mail me even more links to people being unduly eaten by Akismet.
Unfortunately, most people won't realize they've had a problem until someone else points it out. Just today, one of my very legitimate comments was eaten by an overzealous spam filter and I had to contact the blogger and ask him to fish it out for me.
Also, for anyone who wants to read the entry in question, here's a direct link.
In fact, it seems that a few days after the dust up on the blog, Automattic began to (which is only visible to WP.com users at the moment).
~ Teli