I thought "subscribing" was the best way -- or do you mean besides e-mail subscribing?

I've got my account set so that I automatically get subscribed to any thread where I've posted. If I don't have anything to say just then but I want to follow the thread anyway, I use "Thread Tools" to subscribe just as if I'd posted.

I keep my subscriptions in two tiers. The newer ones with unread replies show up in bold on my "Subscribed Threads" page, which is always the first page I look at when I come here (I have it bookmarked). I keep older, mostly inactive subscribed threads in a separate "old subs" folder and get notified by e-mail when anyone else replies -- maybe once or twice a month for more than a hundred old threads.

I purge subscriptions for most threads that have been inactive for six months or so. If there's one I'm especially interested in, though, I'll leave it subscribed indefinitely.

One advantage of keeping a subscription on file is that if I want to refer to that thread in another post, I have a link to it without having to search very far.

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