Selectively disable new mail notification

[Stuart]

Hi folks,

I've got rules set up and working for junk mail and various other wastes of
bandwidth such as luddite autoresponders, what I would like to do is not get
a new mail notification for an item that is junk mail or auto-deteted by a
rule.

Is there anyway to do this without turning off the notification entirely?

- oh, and if MS are watching: if not, why not?

TIA

(Office XP 2002 SP-2)

Stuart