Microsoft Outlook email - Rules and ignoring certain posts

Bruce Hagen wrote:
"DavidW" wrote in message
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Bruce Hagen wrote:
"DavidW" wrote in message
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Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM wrote:
"DavidW" wrote in message
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Hello,

I have rules to flag newsgroup posts from certain people as
Ignore, but I don't want responses to those posts ignored, which
is what's happening now. If an ignored poster starts a thread,
every other post in the thread is ignored. How can I stop this?

Also, what exactly does "Stop processing more rules" mean? I have
it on, on advice, but I don't know why I need it.

Instead of marking the messages as ignored mark them as read.

So you are effectively saying that a killfile is not necessary or
desirable?

Why don't you just KF the people you don't wish to see posts from?
If you don't want to see posts from , create a From
rule that deletes that address and also check Stop processing more
rules. Forget about ignore rules.

Because I occasionally do want to see posts by someone I wat to
ignore. Example:
Poster JohnDoe has an annoying style, is too trivial and posts far
too much to put up with his posts, but he's usually on topic. If I
delete him I'll still see replies to him, which is okay, but I might
be interested enough in what's said to want to see the OP now and
then, but it's been deleted. I want them marked Ignored so I can see
them if I want, but if I do that all sub-branches are also marked
Ignored when I download the latest posts.

Also, I'm happy to delete spam, but it's possible that a rule I'm
using to kill spam will sometimes inadvertently kill a legitimate
poster. Deletion is too drastic because you can only use it when
you're 100% sure you'll never want to see a post that satisfies the
rule, and I would rarely be that sure. Whatever you do to hide a
post should be reversible.

Well, you can't have your cake and eat it too.

I could if the software would allow it. It's not that hard. It's already doing
exactly what I want in Apply Now.

How about adding these
people to a rule that highlights with color instead of delete, or
ignore?

I didn't know I could do that, but it wouldn't really help. The whole point is
not to see those posts at all (except occasionally).

I have about 100 addresses in my killfile, and I am /positive/ I
don't want to see messages from them again, but they are spammers and
trolls.

Yes, but I'm having to choose substrings because the spammers keep changing
their addresses to defeat people like you and me. That's when you risk the
substring being in something legitimate.