Filtering Spam with JavaMail

My spam filter, ChiaraMail, has come up against some spam which it doesn't know how to deal with. Specifically, I've been getting more and more spam whose content is in HTML and obfuscated with "<...>" tags. For example,
M<foo>ake<bar>Mo<fasdf>ney<vcbvcx>Fas<rtew>t!
The obfuscating stuff gets filtered out by HTML readers, and therefore the "message" gets displayed OK. Is there a way for JavaMail to filter it out as well? This message obfuscation technique seems to be the state of the art in spamming technology, so I need to be able to deal with it (I get over 500 pieces of spam per day, which is why I wrote ChiaraMail). Thanks, in advance.
Bob

One way could be to first separate out each word,and then discard all unwanted words if any. Then in the remaining set in each word get rid of the special characters and do the above check again.
Whatever left is fairly clean. But this is just a trivial implementation. any body could get away by introducing an extra space within each letter !!!!
Good luck.
cheers
Projyal

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