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Closed question appeal

I am protesting the closing of this question.
This should absolutely not be closed as "off topic". "A module is an ASP.Net component that plugs in to some point of the request pipeline;" if that doesn't relate to programming then I'm not sure what does. A programmer ABSOLUTELY NEEDS to understand what he's calling and what he's referencing even if it's a few layers of abstraction away. Changes to the web.config are most certainly something a web programmer would do on a regular basis. 
To write an application and not care to understand what's happening to make your code work is careless and lazy. I ask that this question not be closed for those reasons.
Aside from all that, there are over 4,000 web config questions on stack overflow the vast majority of which are not closed...
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Edit:Thank you everyone I appreciate the guidance and help.

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Yeah, closing this is off-topic seems weird to me. I can see how it could, perhaps, be a basic question or something that's obvious to more experienced folks, but off-topic? I don't buy that.
I'd like to see a few more opinions voiced here (especially pro-closing, just in case I'm missing something) before taking action, but at the moment I'm inclined to reopen the question.

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Peston says in the post that he's a sysadmin, and deploying something to a server or getting something to run on a server is something that a sysadmin might do. For instance, I'm sure the Stack Exchange System Administrators have to have considerable knowledge of IIS and how to get .NET stuff to run on it.
At the same time, being a .NET developer, one must also have knowledge of the platform that the code will run on; thus, instead of being off-topic, this seems like one of those questions that, depending on how it's tailored, could exist on either Stack Overflow or Server Fault. I don't see it as being something that is off-topic here, and I would vote to reopen.

