Having encountered web sites that required me to identify myself before I could post a comment and offered to notify me when new things were posted, I had a passing familiarity with the (annoying) process. When someone commented that they wished my site had such a feature, I was flattered. I take that to indicate I am progressing in the crawl-walk-run sequence relative to WordPress. As evidence I immediately knew to search for a plugin to add notification and sure enough I found several including one called subscribe2.
As the administrator it is difficult to see how the plugin looks to a new visitor, so I welcome comments from you who visit the sites. You may post a comment or email me at schultz@pei.sympatico.ca.
Have I mentioned that a next step may be to bring web-related emails over to an address associated with the account?