Hi Alex, *First I apologize for the italic, that wasn't mature. But your reaction was super: I warmly thank you for that!*
I also thank you for the quality of your answer. Especially for pointing me to the right forum (I'm both impressed and sorry. Impressed you did not send me to the right forum right away, it says a lot about you. I'm also sorry to have wasted your time). Regarding the Google group: I did the "brief search" you are talking about to try to find the right Gmail api forum, I just typed "Gmail api" and this group was the most accurate group name. The other result <https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/support> asked me to post downvoted question on Stack. The Google-appengine name surprised me, but since I usually find Google documentation obscure, coming from Google an obscure name sounds logical (it's even more obscure since the right group did not even come as the first result). Concerning Stack, I have a completely different experience, or I would say you have a completely different perception than all the stack users I know. Your explanation is interesting: My reputation score there is over half a million, so I must not have lost > too many points by asking inappropriate questions -- which suggests to me > that I do know which questions are or are not appropriate there. > But I have an even simpler explanation : Your question are not down-voted because the questions you ask aren't basic. Basic users struggle in Stack, because they are looking for basic information, the one that seem so obvious to people like you (it's not judgmental, on the contrary) that nobody asks them. Asking these basic questions aren't welcome on Stack (at all) because they look stupid, or lacking a research investment. (It also applies to the "a brief search suggests". My brief search suggested this Google-appengine group). Many stack people don't really get that some stack users aren't all programmers. I understand that stack hasn't been made for the basic users, I accept it and I'm glad to have it, but I have a completely different opinion than yours. ((It's fascinating how people could have different way to look at the same reality.)) "Sharing to help other users", not in response to specific technical > questions, is not within this remit Ok, but that's a kind of answers that are very, very precious for basic users (because they seems too obvious that nobody talks about it). I just finish by warmly thanking you for the million people you have helped, that's really something to be proud of ―more of anything. I also thank you for *the kindness of your message.* I wish you the best, and greeting from the other stack universe: the wild west stack of the basic user! (*You would have guess that the stack users I know aren't programmers either!) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/afa7d415-2146-4650-a0fa-5618b7665cd5%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
