>Peter,
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>Unfortunately, I do not agree with either. First, I believe that not granting mvp status next year is NOT enough, it should be more fair to strip their current status, regardless of how close we are to the end of the year; but then, I agree with Alan that we should not use the same methodology they are using. Second, I do not think Naomi should be granted with mvp status either, not for her contributions, but for some of her conduct, the fact that what AK and AM (why not the full names?) did was wrong, we can not forget that Naomi also did things that are questionable to say the least
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>Oh, and last, I do not care who is MVP and who is not <g>
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>Oh, I just thought about something, my guess is that before granting MVP status there must be some kind of conversation between MS and the current MVPs, then I hope this matter can be put forward by some of those MVPs that are questioned.


On the last point, I am not sure what goes on now but there did not used to be any such conversation between Microsoft and MVPs. At least not all of them. They just announced it. I am sure there were some MVPs who offered their input but I can tell you that in 6 years or so as an MVP they never asked me once. Not complaining about that because I didn't expect them to ask me. It's their program.