Keeping Up the Conversation in Blog Comments

[Dawno]

I wish that Blogger had a feature that notified someone who comments on my blog that I've responded to his/her comment. And vice versa. It would be totally voluntary - just a little button that says "would you like to be notified of comments to this thread?" or "would you like to be notified of replies to your comment?" - and then gave someone the option of posting a comment to a comment or just to the general comments thread.

grr. It's one of the things I really like about LJ that it has that type of a feature.

Rant over. Any other thoughts on comments/responses as a conversation?

(the backstory here is that I got a nice comment and I commented back in my own thread but I wonder if the original commentor saw my response - there's no way of knowing unless you remember all the places you commented and go back to them frequently. And I haven't figured out how to do that effectively either. I'm so sick of Excel at the end of a work day there's no way I want to keep a spreadsheet...there has to be a better way)