i'm no expert on newsgroups or their related software, so my descriptions of these products may not be accurate, but there is a simple (free) cocoa news reader called "newsflash" that works quite well if you dont need to view pictures and things within the app. halime is another free cocoa news reader which allows you to view media within the application itself. halime seemed to be a bit more difficult to set up, but as i said, i'm no expert. newsflash was a quick and easy to view straight text posts. if you do a search on vt you should find a few others that are specifically tailored for getting pictures from newsgroups ( *cough* porn *cough*) i think diiva and baker were two of them, but i have not used them, and they are shareware.