
    This is version Pan, a powerful and user-friendly USENET
    newsreader for gtk2. The latest info and versions of Pan can always
    be found at <http://pan.rebelbase.com/>.

REQUIREMENTS

    Pan requires these libraries:
    * libpcre 3.9 or higher <http://www.pcre.org/>
    * gtk2 2.4.0 or higher <http://www.gtk.org/>
    * gmime 2.1.0 or higher <http://spruce.sourceforge.net/gmime/>

    Spellchecking requires the following library:
    * gtkspell 2.0.2 or higher <http://gtkspell.sourceforge.net>

    Most Linux distributions already have these; they can also be 
    downloaded from their home pages. Packages for several distributions 
    are also available at <http://pan.rebelbase.com/download/extras>.

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.
        * 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.

    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 re-order, cancel, and resubmit download tasks.
        * Multiple connections are supported, so many binaries can
          be downloaded simultaneously.
        * Multipart articles are automatically grouped together.
        * Nonbinary, incomplete multipart, and saved messges can be filtered
          out of the article list.

    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.


CONTACTING THE AUTHORS

    When sending email, please put "pan" at the beginning of the
    subject line, followed by what it is regarding pan (e.g., "pan
    patch", "pan comment", "pan translation").  See the AUTHORS file
    for contact information.

LINKS

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

