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Hi,

I am very happy with the light weight principle. However, may I please request an urgent feature which will truly solve a major issue about user experience.

Is it possible to add an additional check box (preferable)(or drop down maybe if other people chooses so) where a person can choose to be notified about only replies to his comment and ignore the rest.

From a coding point of view, the checkboxes can be made to be like a radio type (either-or) as if someone says only my comment, then he invalidates the other option ?? Also ticking both should not generate 2 emails (irritating to user).

Importantly, there should be an option in settings to choose which check box should be pre-checked. (eg: “notify me to only my comments” pre-ticked while the “notify me to all” is left un-ticked)

This is highly important as if the blog is very active then the user will get very irritated about constant emails (such as 2 people fighting in comments can generate 50 emails easily) and also my server will overload (bad in shared hosting). Moreover SPAM filters will ring if too many emails.

Could you please let me know if this feature can be added in the next release and if yes, when can we expect it.

Many thanks and have a good day.

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