"D'Arcy" "J.M." Cain <darcy@druid.net> writes:
> Spam is inconvenient. The term for mailing lists that don't do this
> sort of blocking is "spam amplifier."
And, in fact, we were getting spammed pretty heavily until the blocking
solution was put in place last summer. See the mailing list archives.
We've been mostly spam-free since then, though.
I for one would object to any thought of taking out the block. The
loopback list seems to me to solve any problems that legitimate users
would have ...
regards, tom lane