John Smith wrote:

...why Outlook's 2003 (the pay product) message rules are so ******* *****
compared to those in Outlook Express, (the free product)

No this isn't a troll, the ones in OE are so much more versatile.

There are only 2 conditions that OE has that Outlook does not: "Delete
from server" and "Do not download from server". On the other hand,
there are many criteria and actions available in Outlook that have no
counterpart in OE.

OE's rules are simplistic and so pathetic to be nearly unusable for spam
filtering on their own. You can't even have OE search any headers for a
value in them.

You don't know how to use rules in Outlook.