[Pan-users] Re: Following? (was Re: PAN project's status)

[Duncan]

Beartooth posted <address@hidden>, excerpted
below,  on Thu, 19 Aug 2004 13:19:35 -0400:

> On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 06:47:54 -0700, Duncan wrote:
> 
> and with the following PAN has
> 
> How big *is* the following? # of users? Any other data?

Nothing scientific or anything, but PAN is generally included in all the
major distributions and available for the BSDs as well, and has the
reputation of being "the" graphical yEnc understanding news client for
Linux.  Knode works for text, but doesn't handle yEnc at all AFAIK.  Gnus
on EMACS does yEnc, but is only widely used by EMACS-heads.

Then too PAN runs on MSWormOS, tho honestly it's unexceptional there,
particularly in its inability to do decent full message filter/scoring or
to post binaries, in comparison to some really good (save for
its being closed source, which most on MSWormOS wouldn't consider a
factor) competition, so I don't know why anyone would use it there, unless
they used Linux also and wanted to use the same client, but some do.
However, I doubt the MSWormOS numbers are significant.

The numbers are significant enough in the *ix world to safely say it would
be significantly missed, tho, if it fell into unmaintained status, I'm
quite sure of that.  It'd leave a hole, on that I don't believe there's a
question.

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