Pan
Pan is a Usenet
newsreader that provides support for text and binary files. It also
supports offline reading, scoring and killfiles, yEnc (a binary-to-text
encoding scheme for transferring binary files in messages), NZB (an
XML-based file format for retrieving posts), and multiserver.
It resembles Agent and Gravity in operation.
Pan is highly regarded for its large feature set. It
passes the Good Netkeeping Seal of Approval 2.0 set of standards for
newsreaders.
KDE
users may wish to check out our KNode
portal page.
Pan 0.139
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Price
Free to download
Size
1.5MB
License
GNU GPL v2
Developer
Charles Kerr, Christophe Lambin, Matt Eagleson
Website
pan.rebelbase.com
System Requirements
pcre 5.0 or higher
gtk+ version 2.4 or higher
gmime version 2.1 or higher
gtkspell version 2.0 or higher (Optional)
Support
Sites:
FAQ, Mailing Lists
Selected
Reviews:
Linux.com
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Features include:
- Basic newsreader features, such as reading and writing
news, threading articles, and replying via email
- Multiple servers, even concurrent connections to
multiple servers
- Multiple connections, so articles can be read
while binaries are downloading
- Users can specify per-server maximum connections, session
maximum
connections, and which servers are allowed to go online
- NNTP authorization, for Usenet accounts that require
passwords
- Selected articles, threads, and entire groups can be queued
for offline reading
- Articles can be filtered by regular expression matching,
read/unread state, binary/text, etc
- Posts can be queued until you want to go online, and can be
re-edited at any point before they are sent.
- Saves your posted messages in a folder for future reference
- Flexible rules system allows you to delete, hide, download,
or notify you of, etc. articles that match a subject, or are posted by
a particular user
- Groups can be filtered by regular expression matching
subscribed/new/all, etc
- Article headers are cached locally for fast group loading
- Keyboard bindings for mouse-free newsreading
Binary support:
- Decoding of uu, base64, and yEnc-encoded binaries
- Attached images can be shown inline
- Single-click decoding, opening, or saving of binary messages
- Task Manager lets you re-order, cancel, and resubmit
download tasks
- Multiple connections are supported, so many binaries can be
downloaded
simultaneously
- Multi-part articles are automatically grouped together
- Non-binary, incomplete multi-part, and previously-saved
messages can be
filtered out of the article list
- MIME and traditional uuencoded attachments
- Works with servers on standard and non-standard NNTP ports
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Last Updated Monday, April 29 2013 @ 03:24 PM EDT
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