You can make rules that will "delete from server" any message with an sender that has " and
block all sender from this ISP. However, if you are using that to block spam, you are wasting your
time. The spammers change ISP addresses faster than a chorus girl changes costumes. Blocking
sender does no good either because the ever changes names faster than ISPs and
the block sender works only on an exact match. So ever does not get blocked.

You need a true spam blocking software that is sophisticated enough to recognize trends, and knows
the bad ISPs, plus can be trained to recognize spam type messages. For this, you have to pay
someone for their programming talents.

"Bill" wrote in message
news :
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: "N. Miller" wrote:
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: On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 05:08:30 -0800, Bill wrote:
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: Okay, BUT...
:
: Somewhere, surely, in "details" and/or "message sender" there is something
: that "block sender" picks up on (like the senders name/address) that derails
: it from ever getting in the receivers in box.
:
: All I want is to be able to do the same to the sender's ISP, e.g. block
: everything, regardless of name, address, etc., from him, the same as I can
: now do to a single e-address/sender.
:
: You wrote (that), "... have to be willing to learn how to run your own MTA
: to do
: this. Most people aren't."
:
: I'm a writer. That's all. Learning how to do anything with a computer is a
: chore and usually over my head. OE has made a lot of things easy, like
: blocking a sender. Just carry it one more step on.
:
: You also said, "... This can't be done at the client level. By the time MS
: Outlook express is pulling email from the POP3 or IMAP server, the message
: has been received. You can't block it, now; all you can do is divert suspect
: email to a
: special folder, or delete it. ...."
:
: Okay, so OE does all that, but why can't I divert anything, any message,
: that includes a designated ISP in the "details" or "message headings" as well
: as a designated e-address/sender with the simple click of a key?
:
: And, finally, "... MSFT shouldn't, and likely won't consider it. Ask MSFT to
: add a Naive Bayesian filter to the next iteration of Outlook Express; that
: would be more feasible."
:
: I don't have a clue as to what you said. Who is MSFT and what is a Naive
: Bayesian filter? Remember, I'm a writer, therefore computer stupid. Tell me
: what to ask them for (and where to contact them) and I'll ask, nicely.
:
: Come to think of it, maybe I should have used "divert" instead of "block."
: There must be a difference.