SMF Question: What does the posting option "Return to this topic" do?

[Bruce Wagner]

What does the posting option "Return to this topic" do?

Normally, I've seen an option to "Notify me by email of new posts to this thread." --- which I like.

However, in this forum, that seems to be replaced with:  "Return to this topic"  -- which I have no idea what that means?

[theymos]

http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=help;page=post#return

[Bruce Wagner]

Oh. Ok.

But that's not important to me.

What I really want is....  a notification by EMAIL when someone replies to a thread I am subscribed to (one I have posted or replied to).

Does this forum have that capability?

[theymos]

Does this forum have that capability?

No. It was disabled. Nothing on bitcoin.org ever sends any email.

[kbriggs]

No. It was disabled. Nothing on bitcoin.org ever sends any email.

Well that sucks. I'd like to know when someone posts to a thread I started without having to check back every 5 minutes. When I click the "Profile" item on the top menu, there are options available for this and instructions on how to click a Notify button to subscribe to a thread. Why does that even show up or at least have some kind of "disabled" stamp on it?