Pan is a
Gnome newsreader, 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 short release cycles and large feature set. It passes the Good Netkeeping Seal of Approval set of standards for newsreaders.