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Old 11-16-2018, 03:21 AM
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Originally Posted by Ron61 View Post
I am not sure if this is true but I tried to find out once and was told that it was to stop spammers that get onto a site just loading it up with their spam. And 90 seconds seems to be pretty standard among all of the sites that I belong to. As slow as I now type that really doesn't bother me.

Ron
Ron hit it on the head, the delay was done to prevent "bot" spammers from flooding this site with spam. While you don't see much of that here, out in the open, you'd be amazed at what happens in the background, day in and day out, hour by hour.
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