gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » pan newsreader http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:51:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Pan Newsreaderhttp://www.ghacks.net/2007/06/09/pan-newsreader/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/06/09/pan-newsreader/#comments Sat, 09 Jun 2007 07:46:48 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/2007/06/09/pan-newsreader/ I have been trying several newsreaders for the Usenet until I finally found the one and only newsreader Newsbin. I purchased it years ago and can only recommend it to everyone else who is serious about the Usenet. I do know however that some users prefer free software and that is why I took a look at the Pan newsreader which is available for Windows, Mac and Unix.

Pan Newsreader is offering a lot of features that commercial Usenet readers such as Newsbin are offering as well. It does support download binaries of course offering single-click encoding, multiple connections and simultaneous downloads and image previews of downloaded images.

I have to admit that Newsbin is not the perfect newsreader for reading and writing news. Pan seems to be able to handle this task better which is definitely a good thing. It does however lack a few essential features that I do not want to miss. The most important feature in my opinion is the SSL encryption.

As far as I can tell Pan does not offer SSL encryption which is a feature that I do not want to miss anymore. I’m not sure about nzb support but I could not get it to work either.

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This leads to the following question. Which newsreader are you using ?

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