>>In Outlook Express 6 you can go to Tools | Options | Read and check the box that says to Read all mail in plain text. I think this will prevent the behavior you describe above.
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>In Outlook (at least Outlook XP) you can also right-click a message and add it to your junk email senders list. This deletes the email when it comes in. This is really just creating a rule for you. Very nice.

Yes this is OK, but with all of the crap that comes in, this blocked sender list gets enormous quickly and the spammers simply change their return address. I think my "wish list" spam filter in message #738147 would be a better way to prevent SPAM from getting to the inbox in the first place by presorting unsolicited mail to another folder where you could quickly scan for items of interest and delete the rest. It would eliminate much of the complicated key word filters that sometimes filter out wanted email, and the blocked sender lists that really don't work that well anyway.