This probably isn't directly relevant to lstown-l, but I'd have
thought that a spider would find references in a public archive at
least as quickly as something searching incoming mail.

> I have no doubt it is the most efficient way to achieve their
> objectives. Remember they exist "to tell companies what consumers,
> businesses and the media were saying online about their products,
> company, and competitors." They need to do this in real time. No
> way do they read all the posts, but they would have software that
> looks for key words. Then kicks out posts with them in them.

On the other hand, it's their business and not mine, so they
probably know better than I do.

How does one go about locating other such outfits so one can block
them?  Does anyone know of a good search term that would pull them
up?

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