doc: add clients.txt

Since some client tools exist for dealing with public-inbox
specifically, it seems like a good idea to list some of them.

Cc: Danh Doan <congdanhqx@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Leah Neukirchen <leah@vuxu.org>

diff --git a/Documentation/clients.txt b/Documentation/clients.txt
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+clients and tools related to public-inbox
+-----------------------------------------
+
+While public-inbox exposes NNTP and gzipped mboxrd over HTTP,
+some public-inbox-specific/aware tools have sprung up.
+
+Below is a non-exhaustive list of them.  Feel free to send
+additions, corrections and discussions to meta@public-inbox.org
+Discussions will be visible from our own public-inbox instance:
+https://public-inbox.org/meta/
+
+Disclaimer: public-inbox itself comes with no warranty or
+guarantees; so don't treat any of these links as endorsements,
+either.
+
+* l2md - Maildir and procmail importer using C + libgit2
+  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dborkman/l2md.git
+
+* b4 - helper utility for patch-based workflows
+  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/b4/b4.git
+
+* impibe - Perl script to import v1 or v2 to Maildir
+  https://leahneukirchen.org/dotfiles/bin/impibe
+  discussion: https://public-inbox.org/meta/87v9m0l8t1.fsf@vuxu.org/
+
+* kernel.org helpers - various scripts used by *.kernel.org
+  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mricon/korg-helpers.git
+
+* grokmirror - git mirroring tool (not public-inbox-specific)
+  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/grokmirror/grokmirror.git
+
+* ssoma - v1 only, abandoned in favor of NNTP
+  https://80x24.org/ssoma.git
+
+There's also a bunch of random scripts in the scripts/ directory
+of our source tree at:
+
+       git clone https://public-inbox.org/public-inbox.git

diff --git a/MANIFEST b/MANIFEST
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@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ Documentation/RelNotes/v1.2.0.eml
 Documentation/RelNotes/v1.3.0.eml
 Documentation/RelNotes/v1.4.0.eml
 Documentation/RelNotes/v1.5.0.eml
+Documentation/clients.txt
 Documentation/dc-dlvr-spam-flow.txt
 Documentation/design_notes.txt
 Documentation/design_www.txt