Geek E-mail Question

[fionnbharro]

Where is the 'official' elm repository?

"Elm" is an old e-mail client.  It's the original e-mail management program (before it was created, e-mail messages were sent and read on an ad hoc basis because you got or sent, oh, maybe one per week).  Starting with elm, you could treat e-mail as having an 'inbox', 'sent', or even filed as having been 'read

Comments

[aimeric]

I would have thought that mail predates elm. I used mail for about a year until someone showed me the beauty of elm. You could actually scroll up an down over each message in the list? Amazing!

I assume you found http://instinct.org/elm/ . It seems like it's about as close as you're going to get. They have a link to Bill Pemberton, who the site claims is the current maintainer.

[fionnbharro]

Yes, the instinct.org site points to U of Virginia as the maintainers -- only the links are all dead.

And, well, yes also that 'mail' predates elm -- but that's sort of what I meant when I said that before 'elm' there wasn't much in the way of e-mail management. 'Elm' revolutionized it.

And since it's September, I often take the time each year to remember when I got my first e-mail account .... it was September, um... er... 24 years ago. I've had an e-mail address in one form or another for 24 years, straight.

Golly, I feel old.

[the_s_guy]

Bill's still at Virginia.edu as of August, according to Usenet. I suppose, theoretically, a direct email to ask wouldn't be completely out of the question, given the amount of searching already done.

[rustmon]

if you've found instinct, I think you have the font of knowledge. Wikipedia doesn't have any more, and while it's not THE source of info, it's a good one in this case.....

luck.