Don't delete your blog!

Thinking of deleting your blog? Well don't. At least not until you have read this article on Bloggerstatusforreal.blogspot.com.

Apparently when you delete your blog, the site comes up for grabs to anyone and everyone. The bad guys. There are programs running looking for deleted blogs, so they can claim them, hijack your visitors and redirect them to their site. If you've invested a lot of time building up traffic, your valuable site becomes theirs! Before you know it, your visitors are being redirected to a website that has nothing to do with you any more. The bad guys will be delighted, your visitors will not!

Here's the first article "Warning do not delete your blog" and the follow up article "Rename your blog: I dont think so.