I've been made aware that some people are having trouble with the email alerts sent out from the website follow news items, new forums, or new postings to a forum. Without having a look around in the account of someone who is having trouble I can recommend you check the following things:

1) http://vuwtc.org.nz/cs/user/EditProfile.aspx - Make sure "Recieve Emails" and "Enable email notifications..." are both set to YES and you have a valid email address in "Private Email"

2)  http://vuwtc.org.nz/cs/blogs/vuwtc/emailsubscriptions.aspx - To recieve emails when someone adds a news item to the site set this to "new posts and articles only", if you want to also get an additional email each time someone comments on a news item then choose the bottom option.

3)  http://vuwtc.org.nz/cs/forums/ForumSubscriptions.aspx - Make sure there is a check next to each forum that you wish to receive email updates for

4) For each forum there is a "More Options" button right at the bottom of the page. If you click this a box appears that has as its last option "Send Email". My understanding of how these options should work is that "new topics" will only give you an email for each new forum that is added. "new posts" should give you an email for each new forum, and each post that is made.