In my ignorance, I thought that if someone comments on a post here in response to an earlier comment, the author of that earlier comment was automatically notified by email that someone had replied to them. I happened to check my assumption with Mr. C., who was engaged in a brief exchange of comments yesterday, and thus discovered that my belief was mistaken.
This is vexing because it means the chances are people won't know that the points they've raised have been answered or taken up or perhaps some further information has been offered by others or by me - e.g. a fairly lengthy response about the appropriate age-group for a book on this post, and details of a painting and news of a forthcoming exhibition on this one.
It seems then that if anyone has commented or is interested in following a developing thread they will have to manually check back on the post in question from time to time - unless there is some other way of doing it that I haven't come across, in which case, please let me know!
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(Lightbulb moment no. 2 is on the books site).
