Jeff Chan wrote to SURBL Discussion list:
The decision to whitelist is often difficult and usually requires at least some research. Fortunately some of our research tools like GetURI and others help quite a bit,
Speaking of which, I've worked hard to convince GetURI (new version pending release!) to follow the SURBL inclusion criteria pretty closely; I've added SBL lookups on the forward IP(s) and nameservers, as well as IADB2 and WADB checks on the IP(s), although the IADB2/WADB checks rarely hit. The SBL lookups are extremely useful. And, of course, GetURI has had the --age option for a while now.
Here's what the output looks like now (this took 57s for ~900 messages, even with the great number of DNS queries needed to process the 116 domains not found in SURBL):
http://ry.ca/geturi/public/criteriatest.html (62K)
Feedback welcome!
These features are in the current development version (not available to the public, yet, sorry), but, once testing is complete, there'll be a new release.
but classification still requires human judgement and effort.
Agreed! Hopefully GetURI can reduce the human effort, so humans have more energy for judgement. :-)
- Ryan