Fair call, now let me share my opinion of SOME of the MVPs that I HAVE met. All about talking themselves up in community forums, mailing list, etc most of the time not really answering questions just racking up points on the forum in order to become Gold this or Platinum that, doing as many presentations as possible most of the time ripping off TechEd presentation or doing beginner level presentations and of course networking with the right people in order to get their name on the list. I would not be fair if I say that I have met and worked with many MVPs that are brilliant, but MVP status just like MCP status doesnt guarantee it so I found it interesting that you would comment on the value of MCP and yet feel happy to sign off with MVP

Seems a bit rich coming from soming who adds "Microsoft MVP" to the end of their name. Meeting some MVPs I would not say too many better things about the MVP process as compared to the MCP