On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:05:25 +0100 Jonas Eckerman <jonas_li...@frukt.org> wrote:
> Marc Perkel wrote: > > > I don't know if it will be useful but I made a short URL provider > > list that is DNS readable. > > Thanks. That could be usuable in my URLRedirect plugin. A current > list of URL redirectors is the main thing missing from that plugin. > > It would be even better it included info about wether a URL shortener > uses HTTP redirects (wich is what my plugin checks). One other thing is that sometimes the links have already been cancelled for abuse, and the redirection goes to a page saying that. Such pages aren't going to be in any URIBL list, but obviously they are very strong spam indicators. Ideally there would be a regex to match those links on each redirection service.