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FWIW:
When someone posts in the wrong group I usually ignore it because of the 
issues you cite.  Most questions have elements from several groups. 
Occasionally, after the guts of my reply I add words to the effect that a 
different group would have been better for the question.

However when it is too far off, such as a C++ Builder question in the 
Borland C++ group I just tell them that people familiar with the product in 
question can be found over in the other group(s).

.  Ed

> JD wrote in message
> news:46ce18a0$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
>>
>> [...] i'm probably guilty of it myself to a degree,
>
> How could that be? Perhaps because you're asking because you
> don't understand something (duh)?
>
>> [...] seems to be an ever increasing number of posts to
>> newsgroups that have nothing to do with the subject
>
> For complex issues, if one understands enough to ask in the
> correct group the one understands enough to (in most cases)
> google the answer without posting or posts a more specific
> question to the correct group. For example, the VCL group
> gets many questions about TComboBox. (probably) more than
> half of the solutions are API related because TComboBox is
> just a wrapper around an MS control.
>
> OTOH, if all TComboBox questions were asked in the .api group,
> I'd expect that the percentage of 'correcly gouped' questions
> would increase but for that to happen requires a better
> understanding by the user but that's a Catch22 ... if they
> knew then they wouldn't have to ask.
>
> However, there are those that need to be told and told again
> and again.
>
> I have always objected to a blunt 'You're posting in the wrong
> group' (without a 'but since you're here' explaination). I
> think that a reminder to post to the most appropriate group is
> called for but ISTM that the guys who complain about it without
> offering a solution (or saying that they have none) do not
> demonstrate a patience that I'm quite sure that others
> demonstrated to them in their earlier years.
>
>> Please do no think for one minute that i'm some anal
>> newsgroup'er,
>
> Well ... that's the nature of the beast. If you ain't anal
> then you ain't a programmer because that's a requirement.
>
>> it just seems that people are not adhering to the posting
>> rules.
>
> I haven't been around that long either but my experiance
> about the rules depends more on the OP's understanding;
> not just of the rules but also on the OP's understand of
> of the issue. If it's a TComboBox, should it be posted to
> the VCL group or the api group? Odds say the api group
> but because it's a 'T'ComboBox, that makes it VCL.
>
> Get my point?