[cripplecreek]

I wonder if there are any “gifted” freepers out there with the tech savvy to screen future letters for duplicates posted in other papers.

It doesn't take gifted. I put your sentence into google and it came up with a link to Free republic. If you had said it in other places online it would come up there as well.

[BelleAl]

I have done google searches using a sentence from this letter to the editor. I was just thinking if there was some tracking matrix that could be set up to post similar letters and find patterns that could be highlighted and publicized.