Bug 8115 - 25_url_shortener.cf should include Peter Dave Hello's URL shortener list
Summary: 25_url_shortener.cf should include Peter Dave Hello's URL shortener list
Status: NEW
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Product: Spamassassin
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Rules (show other bugs)
Version: 4.0.0
Hardware: PC Linux
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: Undefined
Assignee: SpamAssassin Developer Mailing List
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Reported: 2023-01-23 17:49 UTC by Christer Mjellem Strand
Modified: 2023-01-23 17:49 UTC (History)
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Description Christer Mjellem Strand 2023-01-23 17:49:31 UTC 
Peter Dave Hello maintains a "High quality URL shorteners domain list, used by NextDNS, ControlD, RethinkDNS and dnslow.me". From what I can gather, the description seems accurate; this appears to be the most current, complete, well-researched and actively maintained URL shortener list I've come across. And I've looked more or less everywhere over the past few weeks.

https://github.com/PeterDaveHello/url-shorteners

As best I can tell, there should be no problem consuming his entire active list (with credit and permission, of course) into the 25_url_shortener.cf ruleset. This would provide far better coverage than what's currently there, and thus vastly improve the usefulness of the plugin.

I've been planning and working on a big change request to the url_shortener list, but I think I'd perhaps rather contribute to his project, and see SA consume it. He seems quite dedicated to this particular maintenance task, in a way I suspect the SA project does not currently have the resources to be (not to mention how duplicating the labor is entirely unnecessary).