NSK wrote:
Does it matter? I cannot understand why you ask this
question. Are your
mailing lists restricted only to your members? I don't think so, because it
was very easy for me to register (if that's not the intended behaviour, you
need to configure your Mailman installation).
There is certainly no prohibition or even active discouragement of
non-Wikipedian posting to the lists, but it's natural that your ideas
will be treated more skeptically than those of someone who is
demostrably familiar with the community. Someone who comes in and
suggests many changes without being familiar with the way the system
currently works is quite a bit different than someone who suggests
changes after using the system extensively and determining that it has
some shortcomings.
-Mark