Need help creating a mail rule please - re: spam

Hello all,
Lately I've been getting a particular piece of spam. As I look at it in my Inbox under the FROM column it reads "VIAGRA ® Official Site". In the message pane, next to From: it reads "VIAGRA ® Official Site<my address@my isp.com> That is to say that it appears that I sent this to myself. I have for a long time had a filter for the term VIAGRA in my rules, and for this recent unpleasantness I even added a rule to filter out mail sent from me to me (which is inconvenient, because sometimes I will email from my laptop to my desktop machine.) But neither of the filters seem to be working.
So, a couple of questions:
When I set up a rule in Mail to filter a message based on the sender (i.e. From) is it filtering the proper email address (the part with the @ in it) or the name attached to the email address?
Is there a way to filter based on the name attached to the email address?
Why won't mail filter messages that have been sent (bogusly) from my own email address?
Thanks in advance,
Spalding

I quit using rules for anything other than routing emails into the proper mailbox like "Family" or "Known Sender".
Just use the Junk button for these junk types of messages. I say types because most of these messages have subtle clues in the way they are constructed, addressed, or whatever, and your Junk filter will take care of almost all of them without you having to deal with hundreds of blocked words or spellings.
I get about 300 messages a day. I have a "Known Senders" folder that automatically gets messages from people who are in my Addressbook. Those messages from people I know are moved into that folder. The spam messages are moved into the Junk folder. The 3 or 4 messages left are usually alway spam and get tagged with the Junk button.
It takes a few days to see the difference, but it works well for me and much better than relying on my ISP (CenturyTel) to configure their worthless blocker.
There will always be a few unwanted messages in my Inbox that are spam because spammers make their living getting around your filters.

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