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Originally posted by chrispadfield
how do you mean by this "subscription and posting notification"? if instead of the "there has been a reply to your post...." you want the post sent by email, well this just needs small modification to the email sent with an extra field for the post to be sent as well.

People should be allowed to subscribe to a forum and get notification - including the text of the post if configured to do so - whenever anyone posts.

Today you only get notification when someone posts in a thread where you have posted. This does not help the "lurkers" any, and there are many more lurkers than posters.

On low volume boards, this "general subscripton" method of notification when someone posts on the forum brings people to the site to reply and participate as soon as someone posts. If they don't want to reply or to look at the attachment, they don't even bother checking in - they simply participate on the forum as a reader, by email.

I used to have this with WebBBS and have lost it since moving to vBulletin. I have to get it back somehow .

-t