[hadley]

What I meant by my comment is this:

Chris's hack did work on vB 2.1, so, had I stayed with that version of vB, I could now have email notification going out to my users who want that feature.

But I upgraded to vB 2.2 before I found out about Chris's hack, and from reading through this thread I discovered that it won't work with versions past 2.1. I am trying to beg or bribe Chris to update the hack to work on vB 2.2.4, but so far have had no luck. :cry:

My snipe at vB was this:
The sales conversation I had with them pre-purchase led me to believe that vB's "subscribe to forum" feature did exactly what I want: notify the person subscribed, via email, whenever there's a post to that forum. It makes sense; after all, that's what "subscribe to thread" does.

When I started talking to vB tech support about this issue a month ago, they told me the "subscribe to forum" feature does not provide any email notification -- it's only there so that users can build "hot lists" they can access directly through their control panels.

Now, had they told me a month ago that there was a hack out there, I would have grabbed Chris's hack, and it would have worked, because I was still running vB 2.1 quite happily. But vB tech didn't respond for weeks, until I finally prodded them with a follow-up email -- and it was only then that they suggested I look here for a hack. (Prior to that, I didn't even know about this board.) But by then I'd already upgraded to vB 2.2, which I didn't need -- I'd much rather have the hack.

Chris's hack does what I believed the vB product would do, and what I strongly think the vB product should do -- but in fact it was never built that way, at least not to my knowledge.