It was Microsoft's inducement for developers to provide free peer-to-peer support so MS wouldn't have to continue employing their own people to do it.

I think you're right- after MS bought FP they did have at least one employee fielding queries on those Compuserve boards that MS took over for a while as I recall. He was a fairly fierce fellow.

But the award predominantly recognizes outstanding technical support.

//edit// I need to be careful... last time I queried this (last century) I was told to "go to hell" by the responsible MS rep, though he apologized to me this year... ;-)

Reviewing the list of MVPs, at least one of them must be contributing somewhere apart from foxite, MSDN or UT. And who is the "dni" on MSDN who answers even more questions than Naomi? Is that Dan Freeman? If not, hopefully dni whoever he/she is, is an MVP.