"Any one reading this post please confirm that you have received it."

I have tried to explain this to you; this is Not Email. It's on the internet. You get email notifications from the forum platform, unless you disable them.

And you might be trying the links from within your email notifications, instead of coming directly to the internet. Use your Browser. Click this link:

https://proconnect.intuit.com/community/proseries-tax-discussions/discussion/recent-post/01/206815#M...

Or copy and paste it. Now you are on the internet.

Using email as the interim to a Forum is like having a badly behaving butler. It is possible the email client program is not getting responses or confirmations, or even knows what to do with them.

Use the internet directly.