A. One step you can take is to block messages from a specific sender. With the message selected, click on Message and then click on Block Sender. This adds the sender's email address to the Blocked Sender List and messages from that email address are automatically sent to your Deleted folder when they are received. Most ads have an Unsubscribe option, however I'm not sure whether that really removes your address from their list or just verifies your address and transfers it to 100 other lists. I sometimes wonder if some programs simply generate other names randomly.

Another step you can take if you're getting a bunch of spam to enlarge your body parts, gamble, or take out a mortgage, is to set up conditions and actions for a message rule.

1. Setting up conditions: Follow the path: Message > Create Rule from Message. Uncheck "Where the From line contains people" by clicking on the checkmark, then click in the box beside "Where the message body contains specific words."
   
   
2. Setting up Actions: Click in the box beside "Delete it." unless your web service gives you an option to report spam and then you could check "Forward it to people."
   
   
3. In the Rule Description box, click on the blue underlined words "contains specific words."
   
   Type in as many spelling variations for as you can think of, such as: mortgage, mor tgage, mort gage, mort.gage, etc. and after each one click on the Add button. A default name will be applied to the rule or you can change it if you like. Click OK. If you're forwarding the message to someone, click on the blue underlined word "people" and click OK.

Rules can be edited to add words or remove words and rules can be deleted by clicking on Tools > Message Rules. Clicking on a rule name shows the rule in the Description box and there are buttons to make a New rule, Modify (change) a rule, Copy a rule, Remove a rule, and Apply a rule now. Click OK when you're finished.

I tried installing McAfee's SpamKiller, but evidently there is a conflict with the Block Sender feature in Outlook Express in Windows and a message said another program was using Outlook Express so I just uninstalled SpamKiller.

A. To remove an email address, with Outlook Express open, follow the path Tools > Message Rules > Blocked Senders List. Select the name you want to unblock by clicking on it to highlight it and then click on the Remove button.

A. . Click on the top message of the section you want to delete, hold down the Shift key, and click on the last message of the section. This will select everything in between the top and last messages. Then press the Delete key and they should all be deleted. If you want to keep some of the messages, you'll have to hold down the Ctrl key and click on each one.