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Subject: Re: SATAN user group?
From: <winspace @ void . hell . net> (Norman Widders)
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 04:51:29 +1000
To: <firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM>
Organisation: W.C.E. Consulting
Reply-to: <winspace @ geko . net . au>

In reply to the honourable 'frankw @
 in .
 net' who said:

> The SATAN tool (or SANTA as I prefer to call it - after running the 
> REPENT program) is vastly over-hyped & over-rated.  BTW, I hope you 


sorry but some of us beg to differ, FWIW its a great tool and im sure many of us 
recognise its worth. putting it down the way you did does the auther DF a great 
disservice. its just another tool in the sysadmin's suite of tools or should be seen 
as such, and it performs, what is normally a repetitive and standard set of 
diagnostics that one should be running on ones _own_ network, extremely well.

just my $0.02

cheers

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