Merge with subscriptions, notifications or comment_notify ?

although I haven't installed this module yet, it may be exactly what I'm looking for.

The problem with 'comment notify' is that you cannot restrict per node type.

I have organic groups and I don't want to activate 'comment notify' on those nodes, it looks like this module might do the trick.

Will comment back once I've tested,

J

Comment Dialogue was required by a client to manage comment notification between an editor (or group of editors) and a writer. Rather than me justify why my client needs this, I might ask you to show me another module or group of modules which can accomplish the following:

* Selected roles are notified when the node author comments, the node author is notified when anyone else comments. We do not want blind notification to _everyone_ on comments, only the proper parties.

* Selected roles are notified without ever having to subscribe to nodes. That's part of the editors' job, as specified by their role, to manage communication with other roles, namely writers.

* Writers should not have to subscribe to their own nodes and further, should not be able to "turn off" notification. This is not a public-facing _community site_, where notification preferences are nice to have. This is Drupal being used to solve business workflow issues, where notification is not optional.

While I understand your comments about module proliferation, I believe you might possibly be biased towards Drupal-as-community-portal rather than Drupal-as-business-tool. This module is addressed towards the latter use.