Talk:Comparison of news clients

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Contents 1 Quality/reliability 2 Sources? 3 Eventual replacement for List of news clients 4 More fields 5 Focus on binaries?

[edit] Quality/reliability

Added search engine retention / price but it is difficult to take into account quality/uptime which is quite different without giving preferentials.

Header download support column added - the basic feature is sometimes dropped from later nzb downloaders while calling the program a newsreader so a distinction should be made here as well.

File joining was a feature since the past millenium, it can be found everywhere except mail specialized clients like outlook express, so in fact we have "yes" almost everywhere even when not stated, so I strongly feel the column should be omitted, an unnecessary triviality.

Reliability / RAM utilization effectiveness also drastically differs in order of tens of times, it is of little use to have a newsreader which will bring your system to its knees while with another one running it won't be felt at all, but we have the same predicament of looking biased if to try to classify that, especially older clients have much higher RAM consumption for the same header volume. Maybe to add RAM signature when loading a newsgroup with, say, 10M headers (not relevant for nzb clients though).

It is good the wiki entry has been added, but it needs some work, what we have on the web is mostly affiliation/advertising.

Other columns which could be added are combining headers from different servers, virtual groups, combining files into collections (like binsearch) etc.

[edit] Sources?

Hi guys, I am the original author of this comparison and am wondering just what sources should be cited?

I based this comparison on similar articles such as Comparison of P2P applications and Comparison of IRC clients All software information is verifiable on the site of the program in question. --Fittysix 01:43, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Eventual replacement for List of news clients

I've made this to be similar to the format used with other mediums where a comparison seems to be favored over a simple list. --Fittysix 01:43, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] More fields

Columns to add:

yENC support, Ability to post articles y/n, uploading capability y/n

[edit] Focus on binaries?

The fields seem to be mostly about the use for downloading binaries over usenet. Maybe the list should consider traditional Usenet a bit more. A second table could be made for that. Possible fields would be "killfiling", "scoring" (or generally "filtering"), "newsrc syncronization", "offline reading" and so on. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.192.47.17 (talk) 10:17, 7 February 2008 (UTC)