Keeping Up the Conversation in Blog Comments

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)

Yep. I should suggest it, Mr. Eraser. Good idea!

hmmm. I get notified about comments on my own blog - so let me be more clear with an example.

I posted a comment on your blog. I won't know if you responded unless I go back to that post and check the comments. If you've posted a couple new ones I may forget which post I commented in so I have to check all of them.

I don't get notified if someone responds to my comment left in another person's blog - but I do get that kind of notice in Live Journal (LJ)

I just went through all the Firefox extensions/add ons on their site and didn't see anything helpful. I asked my SO if he thought he could come up with something but he can't. - so I'm writing Blogger, it may take me a bit to compose it. Meanwhile, the addy I'm going to use (if you want to write them) is [email protected]