New Item added alerts from SharePOint 2010 list (publishing portal)

Hello,

We have a publishing portal on SP2010 and one of the user has subscribed to just get "NEW Item added alerts" . User has read permissing over the list.

Now interesting thing is, user is getting "all item changes alerts" but user is not gettiing the "NEW Item added alerts" and what I found out that read only permissing is not enough on publishing portal to get the only new item added alerts. She has to be in the approvers group as well.

Can someone please confirm that this is correct understading?

Thanks,