Index: comment_notify.module
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--- comment_notify.module	(revision 75)
+++ comment_notify.module	(working copy)
@@ -299,7 +299,7 @@
         $form['comment_notify_settings']['node_notify_mailalert'] = array(
           '#type' => 'checkbox',
           '#title' => t('Receive node follow-up notification e-mails'),
-          '#default_value' => isset($edit['node_notify_mailalert']) ? $edit['node_notify_mailalert'] : FALSE,
+          '#default_value' => isset($edit['node_notify_mailalert']) ? $edit['node_notify_mailalert'] : variable_get('node_notify_default_mailalert', FALSE),
           '#description' => t('Check this box to receive an e-mail notification for follow-ups on your nodes (pages, forum topics, etc). You can not disable notifications for individual threads.')
         );
 
@@ -643,6 +643,14 @@
     '#rows' => 15
   );
 
+
+  $form['comment_notify_settings']['node_notify_default_mailalert'] = array(
+    '#type' => 'checkbox',
+    '#title' => t('Subscribe users to their node follow-up notification emails by default'),
+    '#default_value' => variable_get('node_notify_default_mailalert', FALSE),
+    '#description' => t('If this is checked, new users will receive e-mail notifications for follow-ups on their nodes by default until they individually disable the feature.'),
+  );
+
   $form['comment_notify_settings']['node_notify_default_mailtext'] = array(
     '#type' => 'textarea',
     '#title' => t('Default mail text for sending out the notifications to node authors'),