Great thinking. One question though, after leaving those comments on 10 different blogs covering a similar topic, do you also sibsribe to these blogs or just use them to drive traffic to your site / post?
It's indeed a scary thought that this could happen to any single one of us.
The problem is that there are not too many options. Switching to Hotmail, Yahoo, etc. could result in a similar glitch. And even having a 'personal' e-mail service as in name@mydomain.com isn't a bulletproof option. Who says your provider won't go backrupt one day.
I'm afraid these stories will surface every once and a while, but there is very little we can do about it. Except being very sorry for Nick and wishing everything will normalise again as soon as possible.