What I found, mostly, in the web searches I did before posting to this
group, was web-accessible posts TO this group regarding the
inappropriateness of posting such questions here (regarding the windows
API). Several newsgroups I did find had a very low frequency of posting
- maybe once a week. As I have always found this newsgroup to be a very
helpful place to post questions regarding C++ and as the appropriateness
of windows API questions in the group had apparently been much
discussed, I figured it would be a good resource to ask a short, simple
question as to where previous posters would be redirected. I figured
such a post was no more off-topic or innapropriate than wasting people's
time discussing the appropriateness of posts or the answers thereto. I
shall waste no more of your time. (bows humbly)
James Aguilar wrote:
"Ian McCulloch" <ia****@physik.rwth-aachen.de> wrote in message
news:3b*************@news.dfncis.de...
Isn't that equivalent to simply saying 'usenet' ? I can't think of a more
useless answer to a legitimate question!
What he's saying is, "Do your own searching." On groups.google.com, a
search "windows programming" brings up a ton of groups that answer the
question.
A question is not legitimate if it requires the answerer to do work that the
asker could easily do himself. If the asker has tried and failed to find
what he needs, then it is legitimate, but there is no data to indicate that
this was so. Plus, giving an asker a place to find an answer is a
legitimate answer to the (in this case) illegitimate question.
- JFA1