>I for one am sorry to see the blue envelopes go away. To me this is as much of an injustice to the MVPs as when MS tried to remove the program entirely. It is not as much an issue of MVPs no longer getting free PUTM benefits as it is to not be able to tell who is an MVP. Like it or not, when a newcomer to the forum asks a question, he/she has no idea what the credentials of the respondants are. Seeing the blue envelope of an MVP (once the newcomer figured out what a blue envelope was *grin*) was at least an assurance that the person responding has known what he/she was talking about in the past. Sure MVP is no guarantee of accuracy, but given the chose between taking the advice of someone who you bumped into in the hall and the person who has worked extensively with the tool for years, which would you take?

Hi Melissa

You might have seen that people involved in UT are usually remaining neutral in those situations. However, we do jump in when it's time to give clarification to help to better understand the situations.

In this one, I would like to inform you that the removal of the blue enveloppe has been requesting by several MVPs since a few months for various reasons.