Talk:List of news clients

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What is this list for? What is the difference to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Usenet_clients ? --Hhielscher 09:29, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)

1. I hadn't seen the category
2. This groups them by platform which, IMHO, is quite useful
3. This page can list popular clients that don't have articles yet.

--Vik Reykja 16:05, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Listing by platform does not make sense to me, Thunderbird is available for Mac, Windows and Unix, Pan runs on Windows and Unix, etc.

IMHO the best solution would be to make this a comparisson page, like the ones listed in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Computing_comparison --Hhielscher 08:36, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Okay, go for it. --Vik Reykja 08:42, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I agree. Adding details like the price, platform and features (yEnc decoding, binary posting, ect...) would be useful.--Logomachist 02:36, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Listing by platform does not make sense to me...thanks a lot, this happened to be exactly what I came for: a list of Usenet clients for a certain platform.Kar98 00:15, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Contents 1 MicroPlanet Gravity/SuperGravity 2 XPN 3 Nominated for Deletion 3.1 why I removed tag 4 Split list

[edit] MicroPlanet Gravity/SuperGravity

Would be nice to include MicroPlanet Gravity/SuperGravity, if possible also an article on them.

I believe this used to be a moderately popular newsreader; however, a quick google implies that the company no longer develops the product and that it was released as open source, which is now being maintained at SourceForge. -- pne 06:26, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] XPN

Clicking on XPN redirects to WXPN which appears to be a college radio station and not a Usenet client. If I knew more on this subject, I'd correct it myself, but I've learned to not futz with anything I shouldn't.

[edit] Nominated for Deletion

This article seems to only be an advertisement for various news clients, and doesn't really serve much of a purpose. As such, I've nominated it for deletion. P3net 17:24, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] why I removed tag

I do not see how an article can be an advertisement for dozens of competitive products. This list probably meets the WP:LIST criteria--defined group of items, useful classification, more than indiscriminate links. P3bet, please look again and if you still want to delete send to AfD. DGG 00:00, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

How is it any different than Category:Usenet clients? P3net 14:59, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Because it lists clients that do not have Wikipedia articles about them yet. 207.177.231.9 07:40, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

Shouldn't this be "merged" with Comparison_of_news_clients ? I don't see much added value of this page compared to the comparison page. Also, what's the vendetta against URD? It has been added by multiple persons, yet each time it is removed with the 'notability' reason. How does that compare to above statement that the added value of this page, compared to Category:Usenet clients, is that this page lists clients without Wikipedia articles? Aren't those clients by definition 'lacking notability'? Styck (talk) 18:14, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

URD's developers appear to be the only people interested in adding URD to Wikipedia. Googling for discussion of URD aside from a few freshmeat announcements and Wikipedia topics finds essentially nothing. Wikipedia isn't supposedly a place to advertise your newest program, but some people insist on arguing the point. Bye. Tedickey (talk) 19:26, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Split list

The article itself mentions different "types of clients", basically those to use usenet for messages, and those that abuse usenet for filesharing. I think it would be useful to split the list of clients into those two categories, so people looking for a real news client don't end up getting a file downloader with no message functionality. 201.213.37.39 04:17, 21 August 2007 (UTC)