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[G. Armour Van Horn]

>From my Concise Oxford Dictionary, the first definition of squib is: a small
firework burning with a hissing sound and usually with a final explosion.

If you've ever been camping and gotten your matches wet, you should be able to
understand this!

Van

Mike Kercher wrote:

> damp squib?  Can you translate that for us Americans? :)
>
> Mike
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
> Of Antony Stone
> Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2003 2:00 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Quote
>
> On Saturday 30 August 2003 7:11 pm, Mike Kercher wrote:
>
> > > > This is what Wietse Venema says about MailScanner:
> > > >
> > > > "MailScanner is unsafe. It bypasses the correct interfaces to
> > > > access queue files. I would not trust it with Postfix or with any
> > > > other MTA."
> > >
> > > Excuse my ignorance, but who is Wietse Venema? And more importantly,
> > > why does this person's opinion matter?
> >
> > He be the author of Postfix
>
> In which case he might know what he's talking about where interactions
> between MailScanner and Postfix are concerned, however it doesn't give him
> any authority to say that MailScanner is unsafe with "any other MTA".
>
> Also, for those who don't know, Wietse Venema was (co-)author of a network
> security analysis tool called SATAN in the mid-90s, which generated a lot of
> debate at the time about it possibly being an irresponsible thing to release
> into the public domain (since security analyses can be done by the owner of
> the network, but can also be done by people wishing to break in), however in
> retrospect it turned out to be a bit of a damp squib - it was a useful
> network tool, but nothing spectacular.
>
> Regards,
>
> Antony.
>
> --
>
> If builders built buildings the way programmers write programs, then the
> first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilisation.

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