Thread: 60 second rule
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Old August 7th, 2002
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The reason for this rule is to protect the forum from a sort of malicious behaviour known as "flooding".

Flooding is when someone using a special script automatically bombards the forum by posting similar messages. The messages actually flood the server so fast, that they use all its bandwidth...

Plus, there's a HUGE pile of messages to clean up...
Simple enough.

The 60 secs rule is actually a VERY nice thing. I'll be surprised if such forum doesn't have it on...

Ivan
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