Simon,
E-mail notifications can be set in a couple of places and at several levels. John T. has posted a link to my article on most locations to make the changes. I hope that I did not miss any others. I have had my settings to NO e-mail notifications, except for PM's (Private Messages). That has worked perfectly for me, though one day there was some sort of a glitch. I received 1000's of e-mails that day, basically for every post to any forum that I had ever responded/posted to. It stopped, as quickly as it began, but was scary. Luckily for me, MailWasher just gathered them into a pile, and a batch delete took care of things. Have not clue what happened that day, but it was just after a forum software update, and none of my setting had been changed - just some sort of a glitch.
Good luck, and please let us know if you are able to adjust the settings to suit your needs.
Some people will set e-mail notification to ON, just for posts that they initiate. This can be useful if they post to fora, that they do not normally follow closely. I'd set that to ON, when I posted to Dreamweaver or Flash fora, since I do not read them that often. When I had gotten my answers, I just turned that OFF, so I was not inundated with notifications from my main fora.
Good luck,
Hunt
