Help??

For those of you who are not on AOL who've left comments on the journal site, can you please email me privately & tell me how you did it?  I have a friend who's on another internet provider that would like to get the alerts to new entries & the ability to comment but she can't get in with anything other than her AOL account.  I know it's possible to get the alerts otherwise, though, because many of you do it.  Tell me how, please!!  Lizreeves2@aol.com