Commercial NNTP Gateway Recommendations?

plazman30 asks: "I am a customer of comcast.net, which provides usenet access through Giganews, but they cap downloads at 1 GB. Giganews will allow greater access for a monthly fee, but the amount of download you get is based on how much you pay. I am interested in getting usenet access greater than 1 GB and am willing to pay for it, but I want to get the best value for my dollar. I was wondering what slashdot users that pay for usenet access are using."

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What about software?

[adolf]

I'm a Time Warner customer. We don't, as yet, have any sort of download cap, except for a 2Mbps downstream limit (wah, wah). Their provided news server is similarly free.

Only problem is that I'm having trouble finding decent software to work the magic. There is, of course, Agent and Free Agent, which seem to do an OK job of interactively decoding multipart binaries. But what about the *NIX side of things?

Are there any -good- packages for Linux, or in the FreeBSD ports collection, or available for MacOS X? What's good for pulling down every file in a group? What's good for queueing and performing more selective downloads?

Does software exist with even rudimentary file sorting abilities, so that I could, say, tag a bunch of pictures with random filenames of a girl named Charlotte and move them to their own directory with ease, using the subject line to sort them?

My burner just isn't busy enough, these days...