A Look Inside Jaguar. The next version of Mac OSX, code named Jaguar, claims to have a sophisticated spam filter. Cool! Here's what they say:
Posted by Doug Sauder at May 6, 2002 11:32 PMOne of the hazards of online life is the constant bombardment of unsolicited email, a.k.a. spam. Most spam programs use unsophisticated filters to block email. The Mail program in Jaguar, however, uses an advanced semantic inference engine to actually understand the structure of spam. Mail already knows the format and content of many typical spam letters, and also learns what you consider junk mail. It then bases future blocks on content, not email addresses.