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After furious head scratching, rshiras asked:

| Microsoft is aiding and abetting spammers. Office 2003 SP1 changed
| the order in which messages are processed. Before, message rules
| were applied before the Junk Mail Filter was applied. Now, it is
| BACKWARDS. I cannot believe that Microsoft intended that the user
| should not be allowed to permanently delete certain content before
| reaching the Junk Mail folder. If so, Microsoft is assuming that
| their Junk Mail filter NEVER gets false positives, and ALWAYS catches
| all spam. In that case, the Microsoft would take away the option to
| automatically delete Junk Mail, and just permanently delete it
| automatically at all times. Now the user is forced to look at many
| junk mails that would otherwise never be seen. This change can only
| be called a BUG, or at lease a SEVERE ENGINEERING OVERSIGHT.
| Otherwise, we can only assume that MICROSOFT HELPS SPAMMERS, and
| makes it a policy to do so. The user should at least be given the
| option of having Rules processed before the Junk Mail filter.
|
| I am quite sure that this issue is going to create a lot of very bad
| publicity for Microsoft in the wake of the release of Office 2007,
| which is already getting a cold reception in the marketplace.
|
| This comes as a good opportunity for VBA programmers to make a macro
| that periodically runs the rules on the Junk e-mail folder, either on
| a timer or triggered by an event.