A short time later, the first notification message arrived, but it's a message template with placeholders instead of actual details - see below. 

 At least it got my email address correct so I knew to manually check the forum. 

 -- Ward 

 From: no-reply@lightscribe.com

Date: 28 April 2011 2:39:42 PM EDT

To: [my email address]

Subject: reply to @apptopictitle@

@apprecipientdisplayname@,

@appposterdisplayname@ has replied to a thread you have subscribed to.

this thread is located at:@apptopictitle@http://@apphosturl@@appforumurl@?g=posts&t=@apptopicid@

here is the message that has been posted:

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@apppostmessage@

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