P3D Stereophotographer foul play

["Mark Blum" <markb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am saddened to report a recent web based incident that casts a stereo
photographer in a very poor light. I recently put up a website at
www.redshift.com/~markb/ . The webmaster, my brother Jon, submitted it to
several search engines. When it got picked up, a search for the term
stereophotography listed my site as the 1st entry on Yahoo and the 2nd entry
on MSN. My pleasure at this was short lived. Somebody, obviously someone
else with a website featuring "stereophotography" caused my site to
be"bumped" off
Yahoo and MSN by submitting my URL again.The fact  that I couldn't even find
my listing
a week after being #1 can only mean somebody resubmitted my URL(as
opposed to the search engine lowering the ranking). So Jon resubmitted our
URL. I know that Jon was highly tempted to resubmit the first 100 other
stereophotography
links as well, which probably would have sent the perpetrator a message that
one
of the people he screwed over returned the favor. Unfortunately it also
would have hurt a lot of other innocent people, so we are just
going to have to deal with it. Unfortunately it could take awhile for the
site to
get listed again and there's no guarantee the same jerk  won't play the same
nasty trick again.

I am feeling like an innocent because I was laboring under the belief that
the relatively small group of vendors of stereo products or services on the
web were above these sort of cut throat business practices.
Perhaps there is some hope of embarrassing these types of folks into more
civil behavior befitting our fine hobby. You can bet I'll be watching the
sites that pop up on the search "stereophotographer" and I hope that some of
you will too.

Best regards,
Mark