At 10:15 -0800 on 01/10/2012, Dave CROCKER wrote about Re: FW: I-D
Action: draft-kucherawy-received-state-00.txt:
On 1/10/2012 10:02 AM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:
Those aren't queueing states though; they're metadata about the message.
I think I don't understand what this means.
The example given was "spam", which strikes me as a label attached to a
message somehow (perhaps as metadata) and not a phase of message handling
enroute to its destination.
This suggests a confusion about the clause. Does it provide a label
to explain
the specific Received field or does it label the message? I think that having
it used as a label for the message is just plain wrong. Put those
somewhere else.
That depends on the meaning of the SPAM state. If it means checking
if the message IS spam that is different from it meaning that the
message has been identified AS spam. You are treating as the latter
when the intent might be the former (ie: The check might introduce a
delay in processing the message so you are marking it to show the
reason for the delay).