(forwarded:) From: Ryan Thompson ryan@sasknow.com Date: Monday, September 6, 2004, 5:50:46 PM Subject: Announce: GetURI 1.5 Released -- Major additions

Web site URL: http://ry.ca/geturi/

I'm extremely pleased to announce the release of GetURI 1.5. This is a major new release that includes many new features to aid in the fight on spam. GetURI is a program designed to make identification and hand- classification of URIs easier.

This new version supports spam *and* ham message directories, enabling you to include ham messages in your checks, to quickly identify domains which appear in ham. Previously, only spam messages could be fed to GetURI.

Those processing spamtraps, or hand-checking submitted domains for blacklisting or whitelisting will be pleased to know that GetURI now supports two new options: --hamdomains, and --spamdomains, which accept filenames containing simple lists of domains that appear in ham and spam.

If fed any kind of ham domains, GetURI will look for and produce a list of false positives: domains listed in SURBL that appear in ham.

New experimental code has been added to automatically determine the age of domains being checked, which has so far been a huge help for hand-classifying domains. This is done in the nicest way possible, but it uses public whois, and, as such, may violate some whois servers' terms of service, so --age must be specified explicitly.

A new utility, uricat, has been added to produce simple lists of URIs found in one or more text files.

Full change history: http://ry.ca/geturi/CHANGELOG Updated Sample results: http://ry.ca/geturi/results.html Documentation and download: http://ry.ca/geturi/

As always, your feedback is most welcome!

- Ryan