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> Then I think my question is: why do these groups accept submissions from
> non-members?

I believe it's so that people can report bugs.

Note that I don't administer the mailing lists.  If you want to
*understand* the policy, that's one thing.  If you want to *change*
the policy, you would have to step up and volunteer some time as a
system administrator.

Personally I would be in favor of using the mailman feature
"hold messages from non-subscribers for approval".  If someone's
bug report gets held for 12-24 hours, I don't have a problem with that.
I would also volunteer to be one of the moderators/administrators.

I set up a mailman list, kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, which works
this way.  We get a couple of spams submitted per week, but no one besides
the moderators sees them.

> It seems clear to me that that is the answer.

It's easy to tell other people what to do; it's harder to actually
do things.

Would you like to help out?

Michael C