@astro_jcm Unfortunately killed by the copyright owner changing the license in 1995 from a BSD style to one that prohibited redistribution of modified versions.

Unfortunately 10 years later XFree86 made a similar mistake changing the licence from the MIT one to something with an advertising clause. Once the dust had settled, we had a deaf XFree86 & a lively X.org

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" -- most likely writer and philosopher George Santayana

I wasn't worried, I used elm until I moved to a GUI based mail client.