Hi Jeremy,
I have akismet installed on both blogs. I also have copied a list from google for comment moderation and comment blacklist that I have included in the empty fields in the “discussion” section.
I deactivated akismet and deleted the comment moderation and blacklist lists but were still not able to receive email notifications. I also noticed that on my musingsofateageek site, despite having the same spam parameters set as my other blog, here it marked more of my comments as spam whereas the other blog did not. Nevertheless, I am still not able to receive notifications.
Hope you can help!
Thanks,
Judy