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[ ] Wendell Dingus
    No, failed binary decode/retrievals get removed from the task manager. That
    would be nice if they hung around until the user could acknowledge that.
    Perhaps they could try again knowing it didn't succeed before the articles
    expire. Could have failed for some internet-burp related reason or
    something. Just a thought again...
[ ] Adam Warner <iconsult@ihug.co.nz>
    For example, I just posted to nz.test and aus.test (nz.test; aus.test).
    If I follow up to nz.test then the cross-posting works.
    However if I follow up to aus.test then I am only posting to aus.test.
    This is a verified problem. There also appears to be an issue where
    replies to a cross-post are only seen in one of the newsgroups.
[ ] Paul Libert <pli200872@netscape.net>
    Multipart messages with little taglines at the bottom break decoding.
[ ] If I have some download items queued, and I turn off showing of
    queued items, and then delete all that remain, then the queued
    ones show up even if the filter has them turned off.
[ ] Wendell Dingus" <wendell@BISonline.com>
    Yesterday I opened a group and tagged the
    first 3 files at the top of the list. I inadvertantly also had the "minus
    sign - book pic - name of group" at the top of the article pane selected. I
    pressed SHIFT-S and nothing. I did so a few times before realizing I had the
    group name selected also. No biggie, just might confuse someone...
[ ] Also, 0.9.6 will have filters for the error log, much like the thread
    view's filter buttons.
[ ] Purify html reading
[ ] How do Agent/Gravity handle storing articles?  Drag-and-drop to a
    folder, or...?
[ ] When you hit 'offline', the idle connections aren't closed.
[ ] "best_before_'89" <ohmwork@technologist.com>
    When I search for an article by a certain sender, it gets found. The
    problem is that when it is highlighted, and I click on it, it does not
    open.  I have to click on a message either side of it first, THEN I go
    back and click on the found message to open it.
[ ] Sandor
    Subject: second news server downloads do not have status glides at
    the bottom at it is a problem when the the connection is messy and
    download is restarted; because the task manager is confused by the
    restart and the "Done %" and the "... sec remaining" is false.
    The glides show in "Getting x of y" the right info ever - so missing
    them is not good...
[?] Adam Huffman <bloch@verdurin.com>
    Here is the console output for the (Bug Buddy-generated) crash report I
    just sent:
    pan-CRITICAL **: file task-body.c: line 168 (task_body_describe):
    assertion `is_nonempty_string(message_id)' failed.
    ** WARNING **: unknown node: text
[x] Fabrizio Ammollo
    I downloaded the new messages, went offline, then, one group a time, I
    deleted the headers I was not interested about, and I flagged the messages &
    replies for download.
    Then, I chose to go online, but after clicking on the button to change the
    status to online, pan died.
    The same error messages appeared :
    pan-CRITICAL **: file task-body.c: line 189 (task_body_describe): assertion
    `TASK_BODY(status)->article->group!=NULL' failed.
[x] Adam Huffman <bloch@verdurin.com>
    Just had the article deletion crash I recently submitted again with the
    latest CVS.
    It seems to be triggered by deleting several sets of articles from the
    same group.  This may be related to the fact that when deleting
    articles, even if I do something like selecting from the current cursor
    position to the end of the list, not all of them seem to be deleted.
    Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkctree.c: line 4051 (gtk_ctree_is_viewable):
    assertion `node != NULL' failed.
    Ok, I got a stack trace of this problem.  Let me know if you want me to
    try again and get a runlog too.
    0x40433766 in g_str_hash () at eval.c:41
    (gdb) bt
    #0  0x40433766 in g_str_hash () at eval.c:41
    #1  0x40424bc0 in g_hash_table_lookup () at eval.c:41
    #2  0x0806acc6 in group_remove_articles (group=0x81f9178, articles=0x811c444)
        at group.c:742
    #3  0x080630cb in articlelist_delete_articles (articles=0x811c444)
        at articlelist.c:3043
    #4  0x0806323c in articlelist_selected_delete () at articlelist.c:3092
    #5  0x08070aed in gui_key_press_cb (widget=0x81497b8, event=0x81b9120,
	    data=0x0) at gui.c:2209
[x] Eric Ortega
    I understand that the "reserved" connection is generally for getting new
    article headers and article bodies and whatnot, but perhaps there should
    be a further (internal) distinction between when to use up all available
    connections and when not.
    If we made the "reserved" connection only for "browsing/reading" purposes,
    then it would make sense for a command like "get all new headers for
    subscribed groups" wouldn't chew that connection up.
[x] Paulo Filipe Mira <paulo.mira@netcabo.pt>
    Would like a global setting so that "Save Attachments" would go
    into a subdirectory of the downloads directory, where the subdirectory
    is named after the group.
[x] 'space reading' doesn't lead all the way down to the bottom of the page,
    it leaves off one or two lines.
[x] When you post without an address, the 'spammesenseless' one is added
    without asking.
[x] Adam Warner's wrap bug
[x] When first starting out, no server is selected.
[x] Remove task::emit_sockread_err, it's an anachronism.
[x] Adam Huffman <bloch@verdurin.com>
    fresh installation of 0.9.3, went into the Preferences menu while
    downloading new headers, clicked Apply and Pan exited with
    Gdk-ERROR **:  undefined font type
    John LeMay Jr.
    Sounds like the problem I had with fonts. The default Gdk font is some variant
    of Times that isn't necessarily installed with every distro. Reset the fonts
    once and I *think* this goes away.
    The real issue is that the initial font Pan starts with isn't the same as the
    font that is saved to the config file the first time you select "apply" from the
    pref's dialog.
[x] Pan-users
    Keyboard shortcut to turn threading on/off
[x] William Hester <darklite@linuxpower.cx>
    A long while back, I requested a feature: %g as variable in the download
    directory path (Edit, Preferences, Directories, Download Directory).  %g
    expands to the group name.
    So, I have my Download Directory set to "/home/darklite/News/pan/%g".
    When I'm decoding stuff from "alt.binaries.pictures.tux", it goes to
    "/home/darklite/News/pan/alt.binaries.pictures.tux".
    This %g method is much easier than setting individual download
    directories for each group.
    This %g feature still works, but an empty directory
    "/home/darklite/News/pan/%g" is created.
[x] Add article-find back in
[x] Purify the mbox code
[x] Purify Posting

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[ ] Why do we have task-body and task-bodies?  Can these be merged?
[ ] Speaker-To-Animals (speaker@computation.com)
    The Pan newsreader seems to have a bad bug.  If I select an article in
    the newsgroups list to save and then navigate to Folder Tools and "Move
    Article", Pan just complains that I have to select a target folder in the
    Groups list...
    but everytime I select the Folder to move to, the newsgroup headers for
    the newsgroup I'm in dissapear and so I can't select an article to move.
    Either I'm not doing something right, or this is a seriously bad design
    flaw in the interface.  Exactly how am I supposed to save articles from
    newsgroups in Pan?  It doesn't seem possible...
    and Pan REALLY needs to implement drag and drop.  Come on its the 21st
    Century!  Drag and drop should be standard!
[ ] Ronny Haryanto <ronny@haryan.to>
    Hi, it's me again.
    This time I'm having problem decoding binary from
    alt.binaries.multimedia, the message has the subject:
    Stargate SG-1 (4-13) The Curse (DivX).r00
    (probably .r* too)
    Pan hangs while decoding the attachment and I had to kill pan.  Upon
    further inspection of the messages in acache, the only unusual thing I
    see is that the last part of the attachment has only 1 line which is
    empty (the attachment has 36 parts, but the end of the uuencode
    ("end") is in the 35th msg, and the 36th message contains only one
    empty line).  I don't know if this caused it.
    Pan 0.9.4 on Linux.
[ ] Add to prefs the ability to specify what domain name is used when
    the user wants Pan to generate its own message-id header.
[ ] Garry Knight
    Rule to search cached article body
[ ] Japie <House-Mouse@hetnet.nl>
    Folders, subscribed, and unsubscribed all in a tree view in grouplist
[ ] Filters
[ ] Attachments
[ ] Rewrite the rule UI by hand.
[ ] Magnus <elp@algonet.se>
    I think the I found a bug, when download new message and bodys in selected
    group it doesn't download the body if there is unread message in the group.
    Happen to me anyway.
[ ] Steve Glasser <sara27@earthlink.net>g
    After downloading newsgroup headers, using the "panel-resizing" button causes
    the mouse cursor to freeze--the only way to escape seems to be to kill X.
    Sorry no run log--couldn't copy it after the cursor froze
[ ] Michael Perry <mperry@tsoft.com>
    >How to resize the main window (806x520)?  I have a 800x600 resolution and
    >Pan is to big, I resize it and tell the different window managers (e,
    >windowmaker, sawfish, etc) to remember the size,,, Pan ignores it.
    This has been reported several times to the mailing list and on
    news.software.readers.  I have the same problem so I quit using pan because
    the display takes up all of my 800x600 display on my latitude ls laptop.
[ ] The acache footprint gets larger than I would like.  Maybe we should
    get rid of the message-id/filename hashtable.
[ ] Paul Smith <ozric99.nospam@lineone.net>
    I've selected the "use single click preview" option but am not getting
    the effect I'd like.  I'd like to press N to go to the next unread
    message and display it in the preview pane similar to pressing Ctrl-U in
    Outlook Express, but I still seem to have to actually click on the
    message in the thread pane to display it in the preview pane.  Is there
    something I'm doing wrong?  Apologies if I've missed something obvious.                         
[ ] Sean Tomlinson <steelrat@slip.net>
    Aluminum Foil
    Simon Templar
    acmay@mace.penguinpowered.coma
    Optionally stop the download.
    Add an option to force a grouping & decode of selected articles as a multipart
[ ] color for text window doesn't work in html mode
[ ] Reserve a connection for reading articles, so that even when new headers
    are downloading you can read an article.
[ ] When you go back to the articles tab from the message tab, the
    view is down at the bottom of the window instead of up at the
    current article, where it should be.
[ ] Aluminum Foil Ball <theball@bigfoot.com> 
    This is for saving the article body itself.  I was sort of surprised by
    the differing interface between saving articles and saving attachments.
    I find the interface for saving articles very difficult to use, as does
    the original poster.  I wouldn't mind having that changed to work more
    like the one for saving attachments.
    In fact, it would be groovy if they were both the same operation.  Just
    select a zero file along with a picture; the zero file gets saved under
    the subject (because there would be not encoded filename) and the binary
    gets saved as the encoded name or subject as selected by the checkbox.
[ ] John Hill
    Just took a look at the "Save Attachments As..." dialog.
    The "Location" and "Filename" fields are definitely something I'd like
    to see in a "Save Article As..." dialog.
[ ] shortcut to "get new articles"
[ ] Martin Cosgrave <martian@marsbard.com>                                                                                
    It would be nice to have some sort of bandwidth limitation; since the
    news server is usually the closest thing it seems to get high bitrates
    at the expense of other more distant services.
[ ] Simon Templar <simont@infomaniak.ch>
    Decode a random group of articles selected by user
[ ] posting attachments
[ ] Jacob Ils? Christensen
    Reduce Grouplist memory footprint by separating subscribed from unsubscribed
[ ] Bruce Wolk <bawolk@ucdavis.edu>
    Wants to re-order or remove columns from the thread view
[ ] Sylpheed's fixed-font
[ ] Article.size
[ ] SCORING.
[ ] XMLize the rules file.
[ ] "Save" should be available from the popup in the text window.
[ ] ability to pause tasks in the task list
[ ] ability to pause the entire task list
[ ] serialize tasks
[ ] consider 'save article' appending to ~/News/Pan/Folders/groupname.mbox
[ ] better charset support
[ ] Jabali Pragya <jabali@lineone.net>
    Its overall colouring scheme I found a bit confusing - there is no
    way of telling whether there is a new article in a particular thread
    other than looking at the number of articles in the unread column.
[ ] option to auto-expand threads when reading one.
[ ] option to auto-expand threads.  (Add to preferences, it should be default)
    (Add to preferences, it should be default)
[ ] Steve Cox <stevec@canaries.co.uk>
    Just to make things more complicated/specific, what about having
    multiple user profiles under the user section of preferences
    (Like the multiple news servers etc).  Then in the newsserver
    preferences, a default user profile could be set.


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  Pan 0.10
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Jan's Wishlist
[ ] Ability to filter by any header (such as content-type, newsreader etc)
[ ] Ability to "score" like slrn:
    - each article has a default score of 0
    - filters can increase or decrease the score - if group in sorted by
      score, the oens with the highest score are on top, the others on
      bottom (threading still functional, though!)
    - when scoring an article down and it reaches a certain lowpoint(slrn
      uses -9999), it's killed - this enables gradually scoring bozo's out
      of the display: first they might get scored down, then they
      might get scored read and finally they might simply disappear 
[ ] Ability to set an Expiry-Date on a Filter
[ ] Ability to score by Author:
    - ie, scoring the good ones up, kinda like watching, but with
      distinction: for example, my own articles are (of course :) high
      priority, replies to my articles are scored high as well, unlessthey
      were killed before.  However, if an article got a low score for
      example due to a certain newsreader (OE), but is a response to
      my article, it is marked read, but displayed on top, below my
      article in the thread, clearly marked as "important, but scored
      down (ie read)"
[ ] Spoiler
    Some time ago I implemented spoiler-support for pan, it's easy
    enough - when you encounter "^L" (control-l, formfeed), you "mute"
    the following text - you can copy most of the code from the
    mute-quoted-text routine.  It's common in all newsgroups discussing
    tv-shows for example. 
[ ] Personalities
    Different Identities according to newsserver and/or group
    Different Signature according to what group you're in
[ ] Attribution Line:
    Different Attribution line according to what newsgroup you're in:
    In German newsgrouop I use "X schrieb:" instead of "X wrote:"
    Different possibilities of attribution line - currently Pan has
    message-ID, author and date, I'd like to differentiate between
    author-name and author-email, some people might want to have
    subject and newsgroup (even though I personally don't see the
    need for anything other than "X wrote:")
[ ] External Editor
    What a killer-feature that'd be - using $VISUAL to compose messages!  I
    know it's in the preferences, but is it functional?
[ ] External applications
    Specify the browser with which to open URL's (was that done through some        gnome-variable or something?)
    Specify image-viewer?
[ ] Special-character-decoding
    Has this gotten better?  I remember there were some special cases
    where the decoding didn't work correctly.  Also, how does Pan handle
    detecting the correct charset for posting?  Some people might be using
    iso-8859-13 for example and that would need to be declared in the headers.
[ ] Cross-posted articles
    If I read article x in group y and it was xposted to group z, then 
    ant tit to be marked read when I enter group z.  I know this requires
    database-synching of the different groups which, probably, is a PITA,
    but it's really neat.  Maybe one could do this through a filter?
    mark read if article was already read in other group or something?





>The Mercedes of newsgroup readers hasn't been written yet. IMHO it would
>have all the following features:
>
>1) Multithreaded, to allow downloading of newsgroup list while reading posts
>in one newsgroup and checking email.
>2) Multiple NNTP, SMTP and POP3 accounts.
>3) Newsgroup replies treated and retreived like regular email
>4) Ability to bookmark posts, with notes.
>5) Automatic import of account info from the registry settings created by
>Outlook Express
>6) Databases for images and other attachments, with builtin players and
>slideshow capability, for MP3, JPEG, MPG, etc..
>7) Filters and the ability to attach actions to filter results
>8) Convenient jumping from one newsgroup to another from a post's newsgroups
>header (ie, viewing a crossposted message thread in all it's newsgroups)
>9) Color highlighting for any selected newsgroup participant and replies to
>their posts
>10) Newsgroup-specific aliases
>11) Special messages view that lets you see all replies to a post in every
>newsgroup to which it was posted
>12) Bandwidth monitor showing bandwidth usage and activity for RAS
>connection
>13) Background downloading when RAS bandwidth idle
>14) Different security levels for instant hiding of highly-sensitive screens
>and activities (as well as secret background downloads)
>15) Ability to assign sounds to various actions and states, such as getting
>a reply to a newsgroup post
>16) Automated replies/posts
>17) Threaded email discussions
>18) Email preview, so you can download only those email messages you are
>interested in.
>19) Immunity to viruses
>20) Ability to synchronize state between locations so you don't see
>newsgroup messages as new if you already read them at work.
>21) Ability to "page" other newsgroup participants.

Charles: First

[ ] In composer: add "Save as Draft" and "Delete"
[ ] some way to do one-shot tasks without waiting a turn in the queue.

Charles: Sooner

[ ] Saving of queued tasks
[ ] Nicer handling of message headers (ie, a list of commonly-used headers)

Charles: Later

[ ] filters a la Windows' XNews
[ ] a case-sensitivity toggle for rule criteria? 
[ ] Don't load the unsubscribed groups unless "All" mode is on.
[ ] replace ^I with spaces when posting a message to skip tab damage
[ ] spellchecker
[ ] optional disabling of User-Agent header

Charles: Maybe

[ ] next/prev in articlelist should skip over killfile'd articles
    Gary Bust <engb@arlut.utexas.edu>
[ ] Jason Poynting <jasonp@bigfoot.com>
    And finally one feature I'd really like to see is the option to
    catch up a group when you download new headers. This would be a great
    help when trying to spot new articles in groups I selectively read.
[ ] tree view for groups?
[ ] the subject Find: filter doesn't find new subjects nested in a thread
[ ] bozo filter on articlelist toolbar
[ ] I'd like to select the whole text of the message (like ctrl-a in (Francesco)
[ ] For the newsgroup list pane, I find it irritating to have to set the
    properties for each of the groups I subscribe, I rather liked Agent's way
    of setting default properties for all of the subscribed newsgroups, and
    being able to 'adjust' using the property for a particular newsgroup to
    override the default properties.

Matt

[ ] zag's plug-in-an-editor RFE


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  Pan 1.0 
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[Unclaimed -- may or may not happen. part longterm TODO and part wish tracking]

[ ] Denis Manente <denis72@libero.it>
    Command-line arguments for doing Pan without a gui, suitable for cron jobs
[ ] Japie <House-Mouse@hetnet.nl>
    a wish for Pan, wich is already more than complete.
    -showing emoticons as images. (like mozilla does)
[ ] Jed S. Baer
    I agree. I don't see any need to maintain, on my machine, the whole
    catalog of groups my server offers. I'd rather have faster load time and
    a smaller memory footprint. Going along with this, I'd also like to be
    able to subscribe by just typing in the name of a group, instead of
    having to retrieve the list from the server, load it up, and select a
    group. For someone who's experienced with news, this would be much
    easier, I think - and faster.
[ ] Jan Schaumann
    do we want Pan to support "posted-and-mailed" -
    http://www.newsreaders.com/tech/draft-zawinski-p%26m.txt ?
[ ] Jan Schaumann
    do we want Pan to support "mail-copies-to" -
    http://www.newsreaders.com/misc/mail-copies-to.html ?
[ ] Jan Schaumann
    do we want pan to support spoilers -
    http://www.newsreaders.com/spoilers/ ?
[ ] Gediminas Paulauskas <menesis@delfi.lt>
    It would be nice to have an option to automatically import .newsrc at
    startup and export it on exit.
[ ] "Robert Marshall" <robert@chezmarshall.freeserve.co.uk> 
    On the import and export, I've noticed that if you use the browse facility
    then '.' files are not shown, so if you're trying to import a .newsrc file
    somewhere you're not able to select it!
    It would also be nice to have the option to export a .newsrc file
    containing only subscribed groups.
[ ] queue.c's g_slist_append is non-optimal (GLib 2.0: Use GQueue)
[ ] Ari Pollak <compwiz@bigfoot.com>
    Pan suggestion - have an option to check all subscribed newsgroups for
    new messages on startup.
[ ] Jim Henderson <jhenderson@bigfoot.com>
    Date/time is an option I like to have available, though, since I use
    Netscape to read the same groups at work and know what time I'm caught
    up through on the two servers I use most...
    (Analysis: plugging in date/time into a rule and saving the rule to
    have to apply it would be annoying; better to have the 'apply' button
    let the user fill in fields somehow)
[ ] Jason Baietto <jason@metrolink.com>
    I absolutely love pan, but I have a minor feature request.
    Can you add resettable per-server download counters so that
    I can keep track of how many megabytes I've downloaded from
    a given server?  Pan makes it so easy to download stuff that
    I've exceeded my nntp provider's limits twice now.
    Thanks in advance and thanks for a terrific product.
[ ] "Laurent Duperval" <laurent.duperval@uforce.com>
    I'd like an Online/offline button for each server, so I don't have
    to go to the Prefs window when I want to change the online/offline status.
[ ] Hi, I think I just found a bug. I'm using 0.8.1beta6 from cvs.
    When I delete an (multipart) article in server A while I'm downloading
    the binary attachment (multipart) from the same article in server B
    will cause one (or more?) of the multipart that has been downloaded to
    be deleted, hence when pan tries to combine all the parts pan will
    complain that one part is missing. Does that make sense at all? If I'm
    not being clear please let me know.
[ ] Matthew Lenz <hohlraum@nocturnal.org>
    1) make 'tasks' window a pane and tab (like groups, threads, articles) and
    most importantly make queued tasks remembered and able start where they
    left off from one run of pan to the next. (maybe I'm high and pan already
    does this)
[ ] Matthew Lenz <hohlraum@nocturnal.org>
    i dunno how newshark does this, but it associates a 'life' percentage
    to articles and gives you an idea as to how much longer a specific article
    (or binary post cluster) will be around before being dropped from the
    server.  It also lets you sort by this percentage in the download pane.
    (so you can be sure to download the oldest article first)
[ ] Matthew Lenz <hohlraum@nocturnal.org>
    preview a binary attachment.  (for example only download and decode the
    first N number of parts and then launch in associated viewer.)


[ ] Task scheduling
[ ] Task saving/reloading
[ ] python/perl hooks
[ ] It can open all kinds of links without forcing netscape on me
[ ] virtual folders - one for programming, one for gardening
[ ] x-face support?
[ ] add task saving/loading so that task lists can be saved and run later.
[ ] Let the user go offline immediately after a task is completed, instead of
    recycling sockets.  (This will probably be in the form of putting the
    "Close server connection after N seconds idle" control in the online
    preferences dialog)
[ ] Add support for SSL. <http://www.moxienet.com/lynx/> has patches for SLL
    support in Lynx, which points the way pretty nicely.  (Note to users:
    I need an account on an SSL news server;  please mail charles@superpimp.org
    if you can provide one for testing.)
[ ] Jan Schaumann <jschauma@netmeister.org>
    Shortcut to edit a message in pan.sendlater, possibly 'e'
    (Analysis: just make it more prominent in the menus)
[ ] binary retrieval druid (wizard like for automatic binary "sucking").
[ ] cron! cron! cron!
[ ] "Yes, and go offline afterwards" choice in "Go Online?" dialog
[ ] perhaps add 'previous unread article' back in
[ ] add 'next group' and 'previous group' back in
[ ] Add the option to track any thread in which the user-specified author
    is a participant
[ ] specify which server to send posts through, rather than always using
    current server
[ ] search headers from multiple groups
[ ] steal gnome-print code from GEdit
[ ] delete old articles as a group grows to larger than N articles
[ ] pan-users: status bar for "no new headers" "message sent successfully!" etc
    (gnome_app_flash, if we only had a status bar. :)
[ ] group selector for crossposting, so you don't have to type in the names.
[ ] pan-users: single-click to open all threads  (>2x)
[ ] xnews-like text toolbar
[ ] pan-users: extern app to pass messages through before they're posted.
[ ] DMACon: Default to fixed width fonts in read/compose
[ ] prefs option to check server for new messages when you load a group
[ ] more search options to "find" dialog? -- filter by date
[ ] log viewer improvements: coloring based on priority, error, etc
[ ] per-group configuration options: logging
[ ] group-centric design?
[ ] "Michael J. Venables" <michael@ronin-group.org>
    an indicator as to online status
    (There's a status light graphic under the "Online Settings"
    but I can't see that that actually gets displayed anywhere.)
[ ] "Michael J. Venables" <michael@ronin-group.org>
    a button to toggle online status
[ ] "Michael J. Venables" <michael@ronin-group.org>
    a leech function (like NewsBot (http://www.sb-software.com/))
    for viewing, filtering and grabbing all binaries (independent
    of the news thread viewer itself)
[ ] "Michael J. Venables" <michael@ronin-group.org>
    encrypt the password in .gnome/Pan

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  Pan 1.0 (general)
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** Documentation.

   Documentation is key.  We definitely need a users manual.  An on-line
   help file would be nice too, but I'm not sure what the standard help
   file is supposed to be like in GNOME (windows had the common help file
   format and stuff).  The FAQ needs to grow and spread apart into
   separate sections, and should also be distributed with the tarball.
   Basically, we need to make a 'docs' subdir and use it.
