[darnoldy]

Originally Posted by shah

I would highly recommend that you change the settings in the admin panel so that each user is automatically subscribed to the thread that they start, they can also set this option on themselves from their user control panel.

There are a couple of reasons why this is got a good substitute for the "waiting messages" feature.

First, The notification is delivered when the subscriber's reads e-mail, not when they enter the forum.

Second, the subscribe notice tells the user that someone has posted a a reply to some message in the thread--not that someone has posted a reply to the user's post(s) in the thread. In a purely linear thread, this distiction is small. In a multi-branched thread, it is very different.

--don