Whispers

Ah, that explains much, then. For me, my usage of the internet (including DW) is largely web-based, with only the emails for occasional notifications. And no, it's not set up so conveniently from an email perspective, but I started out from LJ and when I reply-posted in the window box, it opened the LJ comment thread in any case, so just going straight to the page is a little annoying but not a deal-breaker...