Morgans wrote:

In that case, the kill-filed person does not show up in the thread headers
at all, and it almost looks like it is a response to someone earlier in the
thread.

Mozilla has the option of having the system mark the kill-filed posts as "read"
instead of deleting them. That way the headers will show up in the thread, but
the "next" button skips right past them. OE may have something similar.

George Patterson
Coffee is only a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to
your slightly older self.