Re: Summary of Issues Raised to date

On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 11:28:25AM -0600, David Nicol wrote:
> Yakov Shafranovich wrote:
> 
> >
> >How about this:
> >
> >* Filters can choose to either take actions on a message or label the 
> >message. If a message is labeled, then the filter should not dictate 
> >what type of actions should be taken downstream but only provide the 
> >information or suggest a possible action.
> >
> >Yakov
> 
> "take actions" is about as vague as you can get, and labeling is itself 
> an action.  A list of actions filters take
> might make more sense
> 
>    label 
>    reject
>    delay
>    deliver

I would agree.  Those are all potential outputs of a filter, and any
one does not necessarily prohibit any other.  A filter can have
multiple outputs for a given message.  Some of the actions (or
outputs) do affect the downstream of course; others don't.

mm