Pan (newsreader)

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Pan
Pan screenshot showing the Gmane newsserver and the pan user list
Pan screenshot showing the Gmane newsserver and the pan user list
OS Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Mac OS X and Windows
Genre News client
License GNU General Public License
Website http://pan.rebelbase.com/
A Pan command menu.
A Pan command menu.

Pan is a news client for the GNOME desktop, 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 and base64; images in common formats can be viewed inline. Pan is free software available for Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Mac OS X and Windows.

Pan is popular for its large feature set. It passes the Good Netkeeping Seal of Approval 2.0 set of standards for newsreaders.

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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.[1]

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