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stevelieber

Date:

September 7th, 2007 1:56 PM

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Mercury Studio/ Periscope Studio blog hijacked!

Bulletin:

When our studio changed its name from Mercury to Periscope, I thought
we were sort of stuck with our old blog URL. Today I was happy to
stumble upon a button in the blogspot dashboard that enables you to
move your content to a new blogspot URL, and I used it.

Bang! All of our content was now available at
http://periscopestudio.blogspot.com . Boy was that easy, and since it
didn't offer up any sort of warning, I assumed that the
mercurystudio.blogspot.c-m address would forward to the new adddress.

Um, no. Within minutes a spammer took possession of our old URL
and put up a javascript that lays viagra and porn ads into a google cache of our site's template. I've written blogspot's support, but their help forum is full of people complaining about never getting any reply from blogspot support. I'm not expecting much help there.

In the meantime, we're writing to you, our friends in comics, asking you to change your old Mercury Studio links to this:
http://periscopestudio.blogspot.com

And if you're really kind, you could spread the word via your own blog. Thanks!

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