This forum has been very useful to me over the years.  As a novice part time programmer, I frequently get stumped, and usually can find answers to my questions by just searching the forum.

I am amazed at the patience and willingness to help on the part of everyone here, and congratulate you all on your tremendous support.

Recently, however, it has become almost useless.  If I happen to make an error in searching, I get a "this ip has made a post and you must wait 600 seconds", or something like that.

I just intended to search for @time, but neglected to put the @ on it, so now I get to sit here for 10 minutes at 11:23 PM waiting to re-search.

I understand the problem with spammers, but surely there's a better way.  Am I missing something?

Thanks

Sorry for the "double post", but I decoupled the search feature from the 600 second timeout. You can now search without the time limit applying. It still applies to regular posts.