Yeah.. Checked it.
4) At the very bottom of all thread pages (under all, not every one, of the posts) is a little button marked \'subscribe-to-this-thread\', next to \'email-this-page\', and \'printable-version\'. If you click that, then you can access these threads from your CP all the time, and you can tell if they have new replies.
Be carefull to remove them from the CP with unsubscribe when you don\'t care about the thread anymore, or you can end up with a big CP, and if people ever dredge up the old stuff... well... it\'s irritating.
5) Also, rather than having an email for every thread you start/reply to come in (as if you check that in the CP options), you can also click the small checkbox at the bottom when you are writing/editing a post. I believe that this WON\'T turn on global email notification, but rather, just email notification for the thread.