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Originally posted by hadley

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.

Then you're conclusions to this was wrong, because it was never mentioned specifically that an email would be sent out (dont you think it would have been stated?). When I read over the features, I never came to that conclusion.

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.

Exactly as it does and was said in the features of the software. Again, nowhere did it state that it would email anyone.

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.

Please re=read Vb's policy about support to hacked boards (summarize, they dont offer it)
The Hack forum (on vb's site) has a direct link to this site.

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.

What you believed it would do, and what it states in the features are two different things. You just came to the wrong conclusion.