Your comment illustrates some of the difficulties of all this. You seem to be fully adapted to the brave new world of Web 2.0. Some of our users are wanting to go back to the old way and so we are trying to come up with email based solutions for them. Your particular need is different from either of those and are the result of folks not recognizing that they are veering into a new topic. Sorry for the inconvenience of the emails. I am guessing that if the posts were on-topic, you wouldn’t mind get emails of comments. Please bear with us. I have moved the veered off comments to a new post. Also, since you are so savvy, I’d encourage you to set up some mail filters to deal with these sort of things. All my “asa3online.org” related email now goes to a separate mail folder that I only occasionally look at.

My earlier comment on “Richard Dawkins: Good Scientist, Bad Philosopher” got turned into a post of its own, which was fine. But now I’m getting multiple emails a day of follow-ups for a discussion that has veered off the original topic. I’d rather just look at the blog site every day or two to see comments instead of getting these emails. Ideally this could be a check box where the author of the post gets to choose whether or not to get these notification emails.