Apparently I am a .NET 247 VIP. That's pretty good going considering that I haven't even visited the site before! It seems that they rip through the public newsgroups looking for interesting posts to replicate on their site. If they see that you work for Microsoft (as I do) from your alias, then they assume that "those people are likely to be able to contribute good, authoritative information to this discussion." That's a pretty dangerous assumption :-)
http://www.dotnet247.com/247reference/msgs/31/158976.aspx