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Why Linux Still Runs on a 1986 Mailing List
Every Linux kernel release candidate still ships through email. In September 2026, Linus Torvalds announced Linux 7.3-rc5 on the Linux-Kernel Archive, and a twenty-patch kbuild series got reviewed inline on the same list. This episode traces the listserv from its 1984 human-administered origins through Éric Thomas's 1986 automation breakthrough to the present day, asking why the most advanced computing community on earth never abandoned a forty-year-old tool. Along the way: Python's unmoderated 1991 mailing list, the invention of double opt-in and the first spam filter, and what Slack…
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