In an apartment about thirty miles outside London, UK.

Tall, slim, another word.

Google.

It pays the bills. :-D It also pays for a lot of other things. It has paid for my car, home, what's inside my home. It also allows me to work for myself, giving me time to help others on EE (or so I thought).

I quickly developed a technique which I haven't changed since I started posting heavily. I actually don't use any of the filters or alerting tools.

Quite simply, I have a link in Internet Explorer to the home page for the Exchange Server zone. I use the history in IE to track what questions I have looked at. I look at questions only once — I either post or I leave it. Therefore, the visited link is invaluable. I do EE from only one machine, using one browser — when I am on a client site, I remote back in.

To cope with ongoing questions, I have the question notifications come in to Outlook in plain text. They are then filtered into their own folder. To track them in there, I use the unread status. Outlook is configured to hide messages in that folder that I mark as read. I read the message, deal with the post, then mark it as read. All manually done, but has worked for me very well.

The only time it comes unstuck is when there is heavy cleanup going on and I wake up with 200 messages in the folder waiting, or I am away from home for a day or two and have lots of questions to look at.

Reading the question, a lot of time, and knowing your subject well. Plus a keen desire to help others.

Both. Vista on my laptop/tablet and XP on my desktop.

Most Questions Answered — no idea. I am not aware of a way of tracking that.

Expert of the Year — I had a good start and let the list from about March, so I knew that, as long as I kept the posting up and Cleanup did their thing, it would be mine again.

I do not use that tool, see above. I don't think I knew about it until the middle of last year. As I already have my own way of dealing with questions, I didn't find it useful for me. I did use a tool to download my questions into a help file, but I have so many that it takes many hours to download them all and to process the file.

The question volume seemed to go up. That may have been because Exchange Server questions in other zones now appeared in the Exchange zone as well. I didn't have time to go looking for them. With the old design, I would go through other zones as well as the Exchange zone; however, I didn't do that much with the new design. That has meant I haven't answered as many questions on other topics as I used to. I used to answer a lot of Windows 2003 questions, but not any more, unless they appear in the Exchange zone. Hasn't stopped me picking up points in other zones though!

Overhyped toy. Apple don't understand the mobile phone marked outside of the USA.

angelIII will win Expert of the Year next year.

I am taking a break; other things are going on that need my attention. I may come back; it depends on how well other things go.

Read the question, post original answers, don't post the first four links from Google.

Not to Lounge. I think I have looked in there two or three times, at most, in all the time I have been on EE (almost four years).

angelIII, perhaps you will have a chance this year.

kieran_b, ATIG, keep the Exchange zone ticking over.