Bug in mailing lists; unfriendly to non-subscribers

[Tom H]

On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Felipe Contreras
<felipe.contreras at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 9:24 PM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> No. I am saying that if you are not willing to subscribe, you are not,
>> AFAIC, part of the community.
>
> So if somebody is participating in IRC, filing and solving bugs,
> maintaining packages, testing packages... but doesn't subscribe to
> each Fedora mailing list when he want to send some mail... that person
> is not part of the community? Thanks for letting me know I'm not part
> of the community, I was under the wrong impression.
>
> Moreover, you don't have to be part of whatever you call the community
> to contribute to it.

I am referring to the community formed by the Fedora users list, not
any wider Fedora/Linux/national/international community.