[VM] Marc Andreessen

[Uday S Reddy]

This is perhaps historical trivia. While trawling through the vm.info
archives, I ran into a post by Marc Andreessen, one of the founders of
Netscape. I didn't know that he was a VM user. (I should have guessed of
course. He was an undergrad at UIUC and a developer of Epoch, one of the
Emacsen that got merged into XEmacs.) This explains to me how many ideas of
VM have made their way into Netscape and now Thunderbird. Jamie Zawinski
(of BBDB fame, but also a key developer of Netscape Communicator) was also a
participant in these discussions.

So I've got my vm-auto-folder-alist set up to provide intelligent
defaults for saving messages to folders. Which is wonderful.

But, I have a vision.

I have a vision of typing M-x vm and seeing vm automatically file all
of my new messages into appropriate folders based on
vm-auto-folder-alist (with a 'misc' folder for messages that can't be
classified on the fly).

My vision continues: rather than being dumped into a single bloated
INBOX, I'm presented with a list of folders containing unread messages.