Pan is a
news client
A newsreader is a software
application that reads articles on Usenet distributed throughout newsgroups. Newsreaders act as clients which connect to a news server, via the Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP), to download articles and post new ...
for multiple operating systems, developed by Charles Kerr and others. It supports offline reading, multiple servers, multiple connections, fast (indexed) article header filtering and mass saving of multi-part attachments encoded in
uuencode,
yEnc
yEnc is a binary-to-text encoding scheme for transferring binary files in messages on Usenet or via e-mail. It reduces the overhead over previous US-ASCII-based encoding methods by using an 8-bit encoding method. yEnc's overhead is often (if ea ...
and
base64
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; images in common formats can be viewed inline. Pan is
free software
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available for
Linux
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,
FreeBSD
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,
NetBSD
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,
OpenBSD
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,
OpenSolaris
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OpenSolaris was developed as ...
, and
Windows
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.
Pan is popular for its large feature set. It passes the
Good Netkeeping Seal of Approval 2.0 set of standards for newsreaders.
Name
The name Pan originally
stood for Pimp-ass newsreader. As Pan became an increasingly popular and polished application, the full name was perceived to be unprofessional and in poor taste, so references to it have been removed from the program and its website.
GNOME Newsreader Wins The Register's "Flame of the Week"
, 2001-10-11, Linux Today, ''From the Flame of the Week: "GNOME-compatible Usenet client software pan (that's for Pimp-Ass Newsreader) has named its latest release - version 0.10.0.92 "Andrew Orlowski Can Kiss My Ass".''
See also
*List of Usenet newsreaders
Usenet is a worldwide, distributed discussion system that uses the Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP). Programs called newsreaders are used to read and post messages (called ''articles'' or ''posts'', and collectively termed ''news'') to one or ...
*Comparison of Usenet newsreaders
This is a comparison of Usenet newsreaders.
Name field background color legend:
See also
* ''alt.*'' hierarchy
* List of newsgroups
* List of Usenet newsreaders
* News server
* Newsreader (Usenet)
* Network News Transfer Protocol
* Use ...
References
External links
*
Free Usenet clients
BSD software
GNOME Applications
News aggregators that use GTK
Software using the GNU General Public License
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