Talk:List of e-mail clients

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what about making list of plugins ?

for example: MyGate - addition for TheBat! making it capable of NNTP-based forums (virtually translates NNTP to maillist and back)

fidolook.org - a pack of free plugins to MS Outlook and Outlook Express, capable of tweaking it, adding some new features (templates for reading and righting, forwarding between newsgroups and more), turning off dangerous features, potentially triggering Internet Explorer security holes.

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Sleepyhead81: I'm the guy who added Cone into the list of text based clients, and I don't understand why you reverted my edit. I looked at the page history, and it appears that Sleepyhead81 is in the habit of removing red links. Why sleepyhead? Red links are a good thing, it lets people know that there is an unwritten article. There really is an MUA called cone, and I was going to write a stub for it myself when the power went out. If you had left my red link there, someone else might have written it.

I'm going to un-revert my edit, and write a stub. Please, in the future, don't go deleting red links.

In fact I just found this in the discussion over whether this article should be merged with the mua comparison article:

"No, Lists have a different purpose than Categories. Categories only work for clients with an existing article. That's why it is common to have red links in lists.--Hhielscher 13:57, 23 February 2006 (UTC)"

--SCooley138 21:22, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. If it is significant, it can have an article; if not, it is indiscriminate. There is a lot of precedent for this, and it's designed to prevent abuse of the project. Just zis Guy you know? 22:30, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Point taken. I do not believe that the article on cone however is indiscriminant information. Please take another look at the article; I think you'll agree, and hope that you will reverse your position. If the article seemed like indiscriminant information, it was my fault, not the the subject's. SCooley138 10:43, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Hi guys, It seems the link to text-based Upas points to an entry called Upas tree. So either a red-link there or link to the right article.

Thanks for pointing that out. I have removed the link. --Sleepyhead 07:06, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge

The suggested merge template has been up since February 19, and that is far too long for something like that. Regardless, it appears that someone already made the merge and duplicated the list here at the end of Comparison of e-mail clients. As such, this article should probably be nominated for deletion and continue to be maintained there unless there are any objections. --Kamasutra 08:15, 9 August 2006 (UTC)