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From: RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: To All The Micro$oft Fat Mouths
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2025 07:05:15 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-01-21, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
> On 1/21/25 1:43 AM, RonB wrote:
>> On 2025-01-20, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
>>> On 1/20/25 3:03 PM, Joel wrote:
>>>> DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> wrote:
>>>>> On 1/20/2025 7:29 AM, Lameass Loser Larry Pietraskiewicz wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> build us a perfect Pan version
>>>>>
>>>>> Somebody hep me get a Windows GUI!  You know I can't post witout a GUI
>>>>> Momma!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Distro Pan hard to use.  Forte Agent under Wine very nice.
>>>
>>> Pan is very simple, but also very clunky. It looks like a teenager's
>>> high school Visual Basic project.
>> 
>> Well, it's not slrn, but I thought it was pretty good when I ran it several
>> years ago. It reminded a lot of Xnews, which is what I used way back in my
>> Windows' days.
>
> Much like a Visual Basic project, it does the job. I'm not a fan of its 
> filter system, but it is otherwise lean and useful.

Pan's filter system is pretty much like slrn's — it's pretty powerful. 

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