You pretty much can't do anything technical on Answerbag. It's one of the most clunky websites ever created. However, you can meet great people! The members are the ONLY REASON many of us are still here.

OK, I THINK I know what the issue is here. First of all, the next time you answer a question, make sure the two boxes right above the "Submit" button are NOT checked before you click "Submit". These boxes are labeled "Send me new answers to this question" and "Send me new questions in (name of catagory)" If either of these boxes are checked when you click "Submit", you will add that item to your "my watch list". You will then get emails everytime someone posts new answers (or questions, for the catagory one). After you've unchecked those boxes and submitted your answer, verify those boxes are STILL unchecked before you submit another answer. If they are still checked, then uncheck them again. Now, go to your profile and look at your "my watch list". Edit the watch list to remove everything you don't want to be notified about. Then you will no longer receive any notifications for those items. :):) Now, if the problem is that you WANT to be notified of questions in a certain catagory but NOT some of the subcatagories within it, then what you need to do what I've outlined above. And then you need to go into the appropriate sub catagories you DO want to be notified of and add them to your watchlist, obviously excluding the ones you DON'T want.