Oh, my! I forgot the link to URIWhois-0.02.
Here it goes:
http://www.tomassoni.biz/download/URIWhois-0.02.tar.bz2
Sorry for bothering you again.
Giampaolo
> -----Messaggio originale-----
> Da: Giampaolo Tomassoni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Inviato: mercoledì 26 settembre 2007 15.11
> A: 'users@spamassassin.apache.org'
> Oggetto: URIWhois-0.02
>
> Dears,
>
> I got some feedback from people failing to successfully run the
> URIWhois plugin.
>
> It seems to me these are installation issues, so I just prepared
> version 0.02 of this plugin, which basically borrows an INSTALL.txt
> file in which I attempt to explain how to correctly install the plugin.
> Also, the sample URIWhois.cf shows an example of the
> "uri_whois_cache_path" setting, which is meant to define where you want
> to put the cache database.
>
> Please note that Jeff Chan is basically right in his reply
> (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>): the issue covered by
> the URIWhois plugin would be much more efficiently solved by a
> centralized solution, in which "someone" gathers registration data from
> registars (maybe even not through whois, but through direct db access)
> and then publics this data by some network-savvy protocol (like DNS, in
> example).
>
> This is, however, something I see very far from being concretized:
> there is a gTLD in every and each nation and the "central solver" would
> need to gather consensus from all of them in order to obtain access to
> their DBs.
>
> In the meantime, why not use a do-it-yourself way? Please note,
> however, that this plugin is meant to help people with low mail
> exchanges. High volumes may result in the counter-effects Jeff points
> out.
>
> So, actually large providers better stay, well, at large from URIWhois?
>
> Regards,
>
> Giampaolo
