- t-prot -- TOFU protection
- =========================
+T-PROT -- TOFU protection
+=========================
1. What the hell is TOFU?
As the man page says:
Thank you!
2. What does the script do?
- It detects, and when demanded hides annoying parts in rfc2822 messages:
+ It detects, and when demanded hides annoying parts in rfc5322 messages:
TOFU, huge quoted blocks, signatures (especially when they are too long),
excessive punktuation, blocks of empty lines, trailing spaces and tabs.
For use inside of MTAs or MDAs it exits with appropriate libc exit codes,
entire inspiration for this hack came from the "TOFU protection" line of
his script on many usenet postings.
+
+T-PROT AND SUPPORT FOR GETOPT::LONG
+===================================
+
+Most distributions (it seems to me) are quite eager to abandon Getopt::Mixed,
+having Getopt::Long in the official Perl package, which does everything the
+former module did. Getopt::Mixed is unmaintained and marked deprecated by
+its author, so why keep it?
+
+The answer is simple: because it's much faster (GNU time(1) tells me 28%
+faster for running my complete t-prot release test suite consisting of
+real-life emails) than anything I could get out of Getopt::Long. Plus,
+from my point of view, there are no problems having a package installed
+that is well-tested and just works fine (you don't need updates and more
+new shiny features if the software just does what you want it to do).
+
+So we have the choice between easy maintainance and better performance.
+
+For the time being, I made my choice and keep sticking to Getopt::Mixed as
+long as it works as-is with current stable perl versions. That does not mean
+I don't see the merits of a well-maintained standard module, which is already
+available on any perl system out there. Thus, a patch is provided to allow
+easy migration to Getopt::Long for anyone who likes this better. I hope
+this solution is fine for everyone.
+
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