From: "Geo." 

"Tony Williams"  wrote in message
news:3dfe4a47{at}w3.nls.net...

> Semi-automatically might be a better way to describe it. I have lots of
> filters to categorise mail and send it to different folders, so I don't
> see spam mixed up with the rest. I'm not saying that my ISP shouldn't
> block spam, just that I like having a second string to my bow.

So it's sort of "we're sure this is spam so bounce it" and
"we think this is spam so tag it"?

> control. Incidentally, the new mail client in OS X 10.2 has a filter
> which is doing quite a good job at sending spam to a "junk" folder for
> me. If it makes a mistake I tell it that it either tagged something it
> shouldn't have or missed a spam which it should be moving to junk. It
> seems to be learning quite quickly.

I wonder if they are using something similar to the animals program logic
to do that? Does it have rules you can edit or does it encode the rules
directly into the filter program?

Geo.

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