"Previous recipients" and junk mail

I have a junk mail filter that looks for
sender not in address book OR
sender not in previous recipients, then
sends these messages to a Suspect folder.
It works well. However, recently some of the junk mail "From" addresses have begun appearing in my Previous Recipients list, even though I have not responded to any of them and in most cases have not even opened the messages. This seems to happen in bursts, for example, yesterday I got seven of them including one from Allume Systems, even though the originators messages were not read or opened.
I am not familiar with spam technology that allows senders to insert themselves as a Previous Recipient without any action by me. Is this a new problem?

What you’re trying to do doesn’t sound right to me.
Anyway, to answer your question, manually marking a
message as not junk also causes the sender to be
added to the Previous Recipients list.
That may be the problem. When I had a bunch of messages get filtered into the suspect folder, 6 were marked as junk, 1 as not junk. I selected them all, clicked Not Junk and then toggled it back to Junk.
I'll try dealing with them individually, and watch for the symptom to go away. Except for this, the filtering per my rules has been close to 100% reliable.
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