"98 Guy" wrote in message ...
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I'm not looking for an argument here, but by Microsoft's own count
there are about 3500 MVP's world-wide. I would expect that several
hundred of them do not earn their living directly by being
programmers, computer tech's, admins, etc. But I bet the overwhelming
majority do.

That might be true, but that's not the point you were making. You stated
that you had the impression that "MVP's were "acredited" [sic] with that
designation based partly on the fact that they are employed in the IT
field.". Ron's point is that your impression was wrong, and that is
evidenced by the fact that there are plenty of MVPs not employed in IT, or
in some cases not in the workforce at all. Check out what MS actually says
about the process:
"MVPs represent a broad spectrum of Microsoft product users. They occupy
many different professions including accountants, teachers, artists,
engineers and technologists. "