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