You don’t want your Blogspot blog any more? Moving on? Trying to quit your habit?
However keen you are to escape, it may not be a good idea to close down the account and thus make the name available to others. At least, I’m pretty sure that Claire of early modern material culture hasn’t gone into a new business. And if you have a link to http://chlgeorge.blogspot.com anywhere on your blogroll, you might want to remove it sharpish.
7 comments on “A cautionary tale”
Spam’s sophistication is just plain scary these days…
Dear god! I wondered whether to keep hold of the name but had no idea this would happen!
Oh well. There’s a lot of us c h l georges about so I can’t be greedy. I wonder if they’ll notice anywhere else.
http://www.blogger.com/profile/5121775 It’s bizarre. This person’s set up zillions of blogs.
Claire should just stop kidding all of us about this. I’ve long suspected that she preferred doing the sudsy-wudsies to finishing her dissertation.
Wow. I needed the laugh. In what field do people study sudzy wudzy?
Profgrrl, obviously I hate evil parasitic scumbag spammers as much as anyone, but it did make me laugh too.
Claire, I suspect that all of them have been ‘recycled’ from other people’s discarded accounts. Presumably, there’s a bot or something that can ‘harvest’ recently closed addresses and take them over. It makes some sense - like yours, at least some of those addresses will have regular visitors, be in blogrolls, bookmarks, in RSS feeds and so on. (I discovered it from Bloglines.)
Thanks for the warning….