While I have the option to receive email notifications to replies to my posts, I am getting none. Am I overlooking a setting or something else on this? Thanks and I will check back soon on this.
You might check in the junk/spam folder on your mail client. I've not received any bounces from hotmail.com addresses.
Your profile, notification settings has
For topics and boards I've requested notification on, notify me: Instantly-but only for the first unread reply
so you should see a message about a new post (but only the first new one since you last looked at the topic)