Sponge for Windows

User Reviews

• Simple and not a resource hog.

  flyer25March 18, 2012

  Pros

  Simple. Interface is and to the point. Also not invasive. And of course, FREE.

  Cons

  Maybe too simple. Some terminology is non standard.

  Summary

  As far as optimization for XP it seems to leave a bit to be desired. Main menu's and the right mouse click menu does not offer a standerdized interface as to deletion of headers. Re-displaying of previously removed headers was a chore. It did, however, remove headers as a fumction of clearing resources, but after comparing sponge to Xnews, I opted for Xnews.

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• Absolutely useless

  caladan607September 4, 2011

  Pros

  Easy to setup. Too easy!

  Cons

  You must know the names of your newsgroups as there is no search function or help of any kind. They think we're all walking computers or mind readers. VERY UNintuitive!

  Summary

  Very shallow, unintuitive, incomprehensible, useless in many ways.

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• Incomprehensible

  Geoff SjostromJanuary 4, 2011

  Pros

  Since I couldn't get it to work, I have nothing good to say.

  Cons

  Interface made no sense to me.

  Summary

  I couldn't get it to work. I don't know if it's a problem with Windows 7 or something else, but after downloading all of the groups in a news server I couldn't get them to appear anywhere.

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• Very labor intensive setup

  June 4, 2008

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  This program is not very user friendly -there is very little help offered. The newsgroups must be added one at a time not as a group which can be very time consuming. Your computer needs to have the Microsoft update done -to include NET FRAMEWORK 2.0 otherwise it will not install.

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• xuckMay 2, 2008

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• Ill stick with NewsRover NO STARS

  aucheornMay 1, 2008

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  I couln't work out how to get it to connect to my server. It is not intuative or helpfull.

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