Pan is a
news client 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
In computer programming, Base64 is a group of binary-to-text encoding schemes that represent binary data (more specifically, a sequence of 8-bit bytes) in sequences of 24 bits that can be represented by four 6-bit Base64 digits.
Common to all bina ...
; images in common formats can be viewed inline. Pan is
free software
Free software or libre software is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, and distribute it and any adapted versions. Free software is a matter of liberty, no ...
available for
Linux
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,
FreeBSD,
NetBSD,
OpenBSD,
OpenSolaris, 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
* Comparison of Usenet newsreaders
References
External links
*
Free Usenet clients
BSD software
GNOME Applications
News aggregators that use GTK
Software using the GPL license
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