Ken Blake, MVP wrote:

Vanguard wrote:
I've looked at mvps.org. Didn't find anyone named "Bear" there.
Looked at https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/communities/mvp.aspx.
There are couple of "bear" names with that substring but nothing
that would match on the "pa" part of your moniker. So just how *we*
non-MVPs visiting the newsgroups know YOU aren't yet another troll
pretending to be an MVP? We can't so the claim to be an MVP cannot
be verified which means the MVP title is not only worthless but
possibly deliberately misleading.

His name, which he often uses in his messages (or else I wouldn't
tell you), is Robear Dyer. PA Bear is sort of a nickname. Go back to
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/communities/mvp.aspx and look for
Robear Dyer, which you will find there.

I can also personally vouch for his being an MVP, because I've
several times met him at MVP events at Microsoft in Seattle.

Yep, I went to the Microsoft Awardee site and did a search on "bear".
Saw the Robear entry. From another post, looked like Robear and PA Bear
were the same. This was all guesswork. Users trying to verify an MVP's
status shouldn't have to guess. I know folks like to use monikers
instead of their real name (hey, I do). Alas, MVP profiles seem to be
freeform so there probably isn't a fixed field within each MVP record to
specify a[list of] moniker[s] associated to an MVP identity that would
get included in a search.

I've hit a dead end too many times trying to verify someone who claims
to be an MVP that long ago I stopped giving it any importance. They
might be, they might not, don't care anymore because MVPs are allowed to
hide and too many do. They want to add a credential to their moniker
but they don't want it to be verifiable. Reminds me of those old spams
luring folks to get their college diplomas in a day just by paying some
money and getting an e-mail that they could print. Yeah, right.