I think the blog hosting services need a feature that will allow for moss and tumbleweeds and general decay on the abandoned blogs. We would get an idea exactly how long the ghost blog has been kind of "ghosty". And if that wasn't enough we could always do some kind of Carbon-14 testing. Actually I have a better idea. Folks could take advantage of the comment ability on these sleeping blogs, give them a life of their own with their own content. There's more than one way to grow your own personal online empire. Would it really be spam if the content is worthy? And if the blog owner is not staking his claim. Essentially, it's blogsquatting. Let's just make a deal not to do it to each other's semi-abandoned blogs. I actually thought you did not need to sign up for a blog to comment at BlogHarbor sites. I thought you could post if you just signed up for a reader account. This is also new to me. Thanks for your comment by the way.