NapNews is a fully automated news group file capture program for USENET (NNTP). It's made to run 24/7 unattended.

Download all kinds of files, mp3, mpg, jpg, gifs and more!

It's compatable with any Gnutella client, and will help obtain a steady stream of new content to share with others. Supply a list of news groups to download from and it does all the work. Set up is easy. It can handle multipart download reconstruction, mime and uudecoding. You can limit how long it works on a group, make it start and stop automatically, configure for each group differently and more! It's available for download NOW! Free!

http://napshare.sourceforge.net

Source code is available on the site. It's GNU!