I agree, Kite that the whole email notification thing needs some tweaking.  Just judging from the amount of email I'm getting lately, I can imagine a veritable tsunami once the GEC gets cranked up again.

The feature that I miss the most is the old Active Topics.  I really liked the ability to see in one place everything that had been posted.  I don't read everything, of course, but there are many members who I like to follow.  Opening every forum to search for the gems is extremely time consuming.  If the option exists to get an email notice every time a post is made, it seems like it wouldn't be difficult to slip in a bit of code that would send a notice to something like an Active Topics file, where we could all go to see who has posted what.  If I could just click an option for email notification "everything," I guess that would amount to the same thing, only in my inbox.