Jan Tielens points out a big relief in the next version of SharePoint: setting up alerts for someone other than yourself. I faced this need many times and adapted one of the many web part samples available online to allow administrators to set up alerts for other users.
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Little things like this are going to dramatically reduce the number of web parts I have to write. And I like that!
Kate