Comment notification weirdness

[chess]

It appears that when someone posts a reply to your comment on someone else's LJ, even if that comment would be screened by default by that other LJ's settings (e.g. due to anonymity / not being on the friends list), you get emailed the comment.

I didn't know this and so I suspect some other people don't. I'm not sure if it's relevant outside any contrived situation but I found it vaguely interesting.

Comments

[theinquisitor.livejournal.com]

Isn't the point that a reply-to-a-comment is considered as being at least as much 'for' the person whose comment it is, as it is the person who originated the post?

Had to work through a load of design issues for something similar last month, and there's a lot of trouble codifying what's 'going on' with standard threading.