heyas; just another passing idea you can listen to or ignore or whatever. seems some people don't have anything to contribute to a thread, but they just want to read it. and for some bizarre reason, they want the ebot to email them when somebody else posts. yeah, okay, to each his own, right? (don't they get annoyed when they get fifteen ebots for new replies that are only .'s too? oh well.) so yeah, okay, you end up with a thread with a buncha .'s in it. maybe there could be a separate 'bookmark this thread' or 'watch this thread' thing they could check or press or whatever, so they can do that without having to post to it when they have nothing to say.