@mariette: "Hi all,
The site has just passed 1.000 registered members. Some statistics about the
forum after 2 weeks running:
There are 318 posts in 81 topics in 11 forums.
We have 288 registered forum members.
Members helping members on our forum. We have four MVP's currently active on
the forum and one special member called 'Developer who does answer a lot
questions. Thanks for joining Developer!
Want to join the forum? Just register and login:
Take part in SBS forum:
<url>
The next milestone will be 2.500 registered users and my guess is that we
will reach the next level this year! I am working on a special marketing
program, registered user 2.495 - 2.500 will receive a welcome gift and #
2.500 will receive a very special gift that I will announce in about 4 weeks
when I have an agreement with upcoming sponsors of the site.
Traffic on <url> has increased tremendously in the past for
weeks. We have days with more then 2.000 unique hits!
Mari�tte Knap - MVP
<url>
Take part in SBS forum:
<url>"
    @spamityspam: "First off, Congrats!
Secondly, as has been asked here before, I primarily have watched THIS space
for SBS200 issues and asking for help. Am I going to need to start posting
in BOTH locations for the best chance at getting an answer now? I know I
hate reading the same posts in two different places, and I assume many other
do to.
I'm registered at your site, so its no biggie, but I wonder what kind of
confusion this will end up causing in the end.
Thanks Mariette!
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    @mariette: "In news:ue7%<email_address>,
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IBC,
When you want a hamburger you can go to McDonalds, Burger King or whatever
you feel comfortable. It is up to you to decide what you want to do or where
you want to ask your questions. Some people just don't like Usenet and
prefer somewhat controlled or moderated forums.
Apparently there is a demand for what I am doing :-)
I know, life is full of choices...sometimes to many :-)
Regards,
Mari�tte Knap - MVP
<url>
Take part in SBS forum:
<url>"
    @mariogeorgiou: "Yeah
Congrats
you've been bookmarked
(no higher praise, in my view)
Very useful site, excellent
;-)
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    @spamityspam: "Well, not to be insulting, but I'm not a 2 year old. I understand there are
choices in life, but what I don't understand is if we should be expecting
more MVP support here or there. Certainly there is a demand, I should know
since I use your site often to troubleshoot and set things up.
I was simply asking what the 'preferred forum of the MVP's is going to be.
Does Microsoft consider the time and effort people put in on 'other' sites
when they make their MVP choices, or are MVP's exclusively chosen from the
Microsoft newsgroups?
I'm not trying to make waves, (though I can see I am) but I don't have the
free time to sort through several forums each day and would like to focus my
attention to those that will be giving me the greatest information.
Thanks.
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    @crishannanospam: "Microsoft has over the past year to 18 months re-defined what it means by
"community".   MVPs are selected and renewed based on their
activity/contributions in the community.   Community can be newsgroups,
usergroups, dedicated websites, public speaking, etc., etc.
Some of us have been here forever and prefer this.   Mariette has had an
excellent site for some time now that has focused on sharing good and not so
easily found information on SBS.   The forums on her site are fairly new.
Many of us will exist in both spaces and share info back and forth.
I don't think its a case of either/or, its more a case of no such thing as
too much help
Cris Hanna (SBS-MVP)
_____________________
Please only respond in the Newsgroup and not directly to me, so that
everyone can share the information
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    @spamityspam: "I agree there is never TOO much help. (lord knows I've needed it) I like
Mariette's site for the exact reason you stated: it has good, hard to find
information very neatly presented. Maybe this head cold has me wound too
tight, I'm sure both will be a fine solution in the long haul.
OK, move along people nothing to see here......sick man rambling, that's
all......
"CRIS HANNA (SBS-MVP)" <email_address> wrote in
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    @stevefoster: "<quote>
That would be up to the individual MVP. 
MVPs are chosen for their community efforts, wherever that community
happens to be. Sometimes it is newsgroups like this, sometimes it's web
fora, sometimes user groups, and on and on and on...
One possible advantage of web forums is that there's potentially more
permanence for the topic threads - NNTP servers tend to age posts off
after a certain period (though google does archive practically all of
usenet and various vendor newsgroups).
OTOH, I read primarily offline these days - and web forums don't
support offline foxstephen@example.net.
Steve Foster [SBS MVP]
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MVPs do not work for Microsoft. Please reply only to the newsgroups."
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