Cyricx,
I can't tell you how grateful I am for your work on this mod. This functionality is one of the two elements that stand between me and migrating my mailing lists to a forum format. I have too many members who are still on dial-up or for other reasons cannot stand using forums. They'll only stay around if I give them e-mail. Thanks to you that's possible.
A suggestion: For those who are wanting a cron-based trigger instead of waiting for page refreshes, isn't there a simple way to use cron to trigger a phantom user to refresh a page every so often?
Once I update my test board to the most recent vB, I'll attempt to install your mod...
Peace,
Mike D.