For each HTML section of an email, the HTML filter processes the text outside the angle brackets of an HTML tag as before. The HTML filter processes the text within the angle brackets of an HTML tag as follows. The HTML filter first checks to see if the tag is one of the features the filter has been configured to search for. If it is, the HTML Filter counter counts the number of features found. The email is considered spam if the number of HTML features found equals the number configured for the feature's found count.