Automatically subscribe users to a thread?

[mmllc]

Hey there,

Was wondering if there was a way to make users in a usergroup subscribe to a thread without them actually subscribing to it on their own. Of course they could come along and unsubscribe, but I would like to make this one thread subscribed by an entire usergroup automatically.

I took a look see in the MYSQL and have familiarized myself with how subscriptions are handled in the back end, and, as a result, I see that it would be a daunting task to do it one by one through the SQL without some sort of VB Mod to handle it.

Any suggestions?