alerts and stop

[Christopher T. Beers]

Is there a way to stop rules from processing after issuing an alert (maybe 
it already does it).

What I am looking for is specific alerts in the beginning of the file that 
would alert people to problems.  Once the alert was issued it would stop 
after processing that definition (with a keyword STOP or something).  This 
would allow me to create specific rules in the beginning of the file (for 
specific hosts, services, etc) and then a catchall at the bottom.

If the specific rules were triggered, the generic catch all would not be.

Chris