There are lot of things that the average Asp.net newbie simply cannot grasp (hey it is a part of the learning process and I am definitely not one of the gurus), and one of them is that there is a surprisingly large group of people who can't understand the difference between web applications and desktop applications. They have the craziest ideas like accessing the client's serial ports or write to the clients file system.
Not that there is aaaanything wrong with that, it is just up to people like us to try and teach them. It's just an interesting observation I think.