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Standalone newsreaders can be a good choice.
As with so many other GUI packages, there are standalone newsreaders for both KDE
(KNode) and GNOME (Pan). You can include KNode inside Kontact if you want.
Pan
Pan runs much like the Windows newsreader Fort?© Free Agent, but is more advanced. You
can read feeds from multiple servers, including the Novell Linux support groups (see
Figure 16.5).
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FIGURE 16.5 Pan is an easy-to-use graphical newsreader that was designed for GNOME but
runs everywhere. You can choose to display groups, headers, and messages in a tri-pane
format, as shown in this figure, or in tabs, with one pane showing and the others in the
background.
Pan supports offline reading, so you don??™t have to tie up your phone line to read news if you
have a dial-up connection. This is a multistep process, but one that is easy to get used to.
1. Download headers for the group(s) in which you??™re interested. The headers include
(among other things) the subject lines for the postings, who posted, and how long a
message is.


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