let me posit this suggestion: that rather than respond to a post from your email notification that you have received notification that a thread you posted in has been responded to, please go to the forum itself first. i say this because sometimes i have been typing up a response only to find when i hit click to send, someone was doing it at the same time and posted moments before me. likewise, you may be writing a reply and then someone is actually posting minutes before you and you might have not said something if you knew that prior posting was there.
just a suggestion
sam