
    This is Pan, a powerful and user-friendly Usenet newsreader for GTK+.
    The latest info and versions of Pan can always be found at
    <http://pan.rebelbase.com/>.


REQUIREMENTS

    Pan requires these libraries:
    * GTK+ 2.16.0 or higher (optionally GTK+ 3.0.0 or higher)
      <http://www.gtk.org/>
    * GMime 2.4.0 or higher <http://spruce.sourceforge.net/gmime/>
      (optionally GMime 2.5.5 or higher for PGP cryptography support)

    The following libraries, which enhance Pan's functionality, are optional:
    * GtkSpell 2.0.7 or higher for spellchecking
      <http://gtkspell.sourceforge.net>
      (optionally GtkSpell 2.0.16 for spellchecking with GTK+ 3)
    * Enchant 1.6.0 or higher for spellchecking
      <http://www.abisource.com/projects/enchant/>
    * libnotify 0.4.1 or higher for notifications
      <http://www.galago-project.org/news/index.php>
    * GNOME Keyring 3.2.0 or higher for password storage
      <https://live.gnome.org/GnomeKeyring>
    * D-Bus for multiple Pan instances
      <http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus>
    * GnuTLS 2.12.10 or higher for encrypted connections (TLS 1.0)
      <http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/>

    Most Linux distributions already have these; they can also be downloaded
    from their home pages.

    On Debian-based systems (for example Ubuntu), you can install the
    requirements with the following command:

    sudo apt-get install <REQUIREMENT>

    On Fedora-based systems, run the following command to install the
    requirements:

    sudo yum install -y <REQUIREMENT>

    On Arch Linux, run the following command to invoke the package manager Pacman:

    sudo pacman -S <REQUIREMENT>


THE SALES PITCH

    Pan is good for Reading News.

        * Pan is the only Unix newsreader to score 100% on the
          Good Net-Keeping Seal of Approval newsreader evaluations.
        * Pan has keyboard bindings for mouse-free newsreading.
        * 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.
        * Articles can be filtered by regular expression matching,
          read/unread state, binary/text, etc.
        * Works well as an offline reader.
        * Articles can be queued until you want to go online, and can be
          re-edited at any point before they're posted.
        * 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.
        * The same system can be used to define automatic actions on behalf
          of the user: auto-download, auto-cache, auto-delete etc.
        * Groups can be filtered by regular expression matching
          subscribed/new/all, etc.

    Pan is good for Downloading Binaries.

        * Attached images can be shown inline.
        * Pan can download and thread articles as quickly as bandwidth allows.
        * uuencoded, mime, and yEnc attachments are all supported.
        * A task manager lets you reorder, cancel, and resubmit download tasks.
        * Multiple connections are supported, so many binaries can
          be downloaded simultaneously.
        * Multipart articles are automatically grouped together.
        * Non-binary, incomplete multipart, and saved messages can be filtered
          out of the article list.

    Pan is good for Uploading Content to Usenet.

        * Files can be attached to a Usenet article and are
          automatically yEnc-encrypted, threaded and referenced by Pan.
        * Articles can be encrypted and/or signed with a public/private PGP key,
          so your privacy and security are ensured.
        * Connections can be encrypted with the TLS 1.0 protocol (the successor
          to SSL 3.0).

    The rest of the sales pitch is at <http://pan.rebelbase.com/features/>.


UPGRADING

    Upgrading typically requires that you do the exact same procedure as
    in the 'INSTALL' file.


INSTALLATION

    See the file 'INSTALL' for instructions.


HOW TO REPORT BUGS

    See http://pan.rebelbase.com/bugs/ to report bugs.


CONTACT

    To get in touch with Pan authors, contributors, and other community members,
    subscribe to one of the Pan mailing lists.
    See http://pan.rebelbase.com/mailing_lists/ for more information.


LINKS

    Pan     : http://pan.rebelbase.com/
    GTK+    : http://www.gtk.org/
    GNOME   : http://www.gnome.org/
    GNU     : http://www.gnu.org/

