>I just just sent a suggestion to Microsoft to add another type of message rule for Outlook and OE that would allow the user to specify that ONLY email from the addresses contained in their personal address book,

You can do something like this with a Hotmail account.

> ... or from the news groups that they have specifically set up to arrive in their inbox.

I've never had anything show up in my newsgroups from a newsgroup that I didn't subscribe to. Do you perhaps mean what happens when someone CCs you when they reply to a newsgroup post you made?