speakup and the usenet

[Michael Malver]

Thaks to a phenominally patient couple of people, I got speakup installed on 
an old pc of mine, so now I have a question.
What program will allow me to most efficently look at binaries I can 
download off the usenet, and then save and extract the files I want.  I 
don't want to have to see all the parts that make up a post.  I simply want 
a display of one binary per line that I can select, and then save having the 
program chose the proper parts and extract in the background.
I am not averse to downloading and installing rpms, but I don't know much 
about compiling accept that typing ./configure' sometimes does the trick.  
I'm very new at this, but want to download mp3s.  Any suggestions on wha 
program to use would be appriciated.
on the off chance your answer is pine, is there a way to see conversations 
by thread instead of each post?