>> And it strikes me that this might be a good time for all of us bloggers to take a second to verify that our passwords are secure… :-}

I certainly kept my password secure and I’m sure William did the same – this can happen without any mistakes on the blogger’s part whatsoever – entirely Blogger’s fault!

It certainly did and it’ll be a while before I forget it. Your URL only has to be free for a nano-second (slight exaggeration, I think it might have been 10 minutes in my case) and some spammer parks there.

I knew this would happen to more and more people and whilst I wouldn’t wish it on anyone, it’s further evidence that Blogger handle this stuff badly. When there are alternatives, why would anyone put up with this?

The punchline in this particular case is that, if you note APC’s comment on my blog (click link above), it was the Blogger people who caused this! Apparently Oracle-WTF looked like a splog, but it’s been replaced by something that doesn’t??! If it wasn’t so pathetic, it would be funny.