[SURBL-Announce] Announce: GetURI 1.5 Released -- Major additions

[Jeff Chan]

(forwarded:)
From: Ryan Thompson <ryan at 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

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Jeff Chan
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