Pan is a Usenet NewsReader that's good at both text and binaries. It supports offline reading, scoring and killfiles, yEnc, NZB, and multiserver. It's also the only Unix newsreader to get a Perfect Score on the Good Net-Keeping Seal of Approval evaluations. It runs on Unix and Unix-like operating systems, Mac OS X, and Windows.
Why Use Pan?
It's Actively Developed.
* Pan aims for a three-week development cycle Between versions.
* Bug reports are typically investigated and answered with a few days.
* Wish lists are answered, and new features are discussed on the mailing list for user feedback.
* The GNOME internationalization team keeps translations up-to-date.
It's Good for Reading News.
* Pan is the only Unix newsreader to score 100% on the Good Net-Keeping Seal of Approval evaluation.
* Basic newsreader features, such as reading and writing news, threading articles, and replying via email, are supported.
* Articles can be sorted by author, date, subject, or the number of unread children in the thread.
* Multiple connections are supported, so articles can be read while binaries are downloading.
* 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.
* Pan is fast and can download and thread articles as quickly as the bandwidth will let it.
* Posts can be queued until you want to go online, and can be re-edited at any point before they're sent.
* Pan saves your posted messages in a folder for future reference.
* A 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, and so on.
* Groups can be filtered by regular expression matching subscribed/new/all, etc.
* Article headers are cached locally for fast group loading.
* Pan has keyboard bindings for mouse-free newsreading.
