Logan activated the Akismet spam blocker on all of the active blogs.
To further reduce spam problems, the blogs are set to only allow user accounts with UFLIB.ufl.edu or UFL.edu email addresses. In general, this should be fine and it makes it easier for us to manage the blogs for spam, possible hack attempts, and compliance with all campus IT policies. However, for special cases other email addresses may be needed. For instance, if the UF Libraries are hosting a blog for a State-wide committee and some of the members are at other universities or institutions, then the user account should go through the regular approval process and any potential concerns will be addressed at that time. The user account approval process exists to maintain and streamline processing, so please ask if you have any questions or concerns.
For administrators, changing the default allowable email configuration is under the options menu in the site admin section.