A reminder to all you bloggers out there, from Michael Bates: “If you must take your Blogger blog down, please, please don’t delete the blog! Backup the content and then delete all the entries, but keep control of the blog as a placeholder. There are unscrupulous spammers (I repeat myself) who will grab the URLs of highly-linked blogs and use that high page rank to promote whatever it is they’re trying to promote.”

I would also add that the same truism holds for all domains, not just blogspot subdomains. If you discontinue your site, and let the domain registration expire, porn merchants are waiting to snap it up.