Stayed up late last night watching the "Great Biker Build Off" on the Discovery Channel. Its on again sometime this afternoon.......it was a really cool show. Two guys compete building custom bikes in 30 days.
you can turn that function on and off in your user control panel (link at top "user cp")
Also, when you create a new thread or post a reply (not in the quick box) you can select email notification. That's the better way to do it in my opinion........keep it turned off in you cp and just turn it on for individual posts that you really care about.........not getting emails for every thread you ever participate in.