Why?

A node already has a "createtime" and "lastupdate" and even a "lastedit" field. I cannot see what adding yet another field and creating an additional table would do.

You know how we have messageonreply, what no a messageonupdate? Everytime a node is updated, it would send a message to a special group, something like SystemNodeUpdated and then people could go to the messageinbox, with 'recipient' being that of SystemNodeUpdated, and view the messages, which would look something like:
<SystemNodeUpdated> says "PodMaster updated Re: Re**2: Newest node page - order of nodes on Mon Feb 10 02:22:22 2003 GMT"

update: I guess adding a table to keep track of this could potentially lead to some kind of database indexing optimization ... i'm not convinced we need it.

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