Sponge for Windows

By Pmcc
Free
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Developer’s Description

Download various files from Usenet Newsgroups.

Sponge allows you to download files from Usenet Newsgroups. An account with a Usenet News Server is required to use Sponge. It supports yEnc, uuEncode and Mime formats and decodes them while the download is in progress so there is no wait time for decoding after the articles have been downloaded. Search Usenet without downloading headers using online search engines or use the ability to offload article search to your news server. If your news server supports it, all information passed between your computer and the news server is encrypted using SSL.

Sponge for Windows

By Pmcc
Free
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Full Specifications

GENERAL

Release: June 18, 2010

Latest update: August 27, 2015

Version: 3.1.3721

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Platform: Windows

Operating System

Windows 2000
Windows Server
Windows 2003
Windows 7
Windows XP
Windows Vista
Windows 10

Additional Requirements: None

POPULARITY

Total Downloads: 2,620

Downloads Last Week: 0

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2.2/5

6 User Votes

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.
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.
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.
Very labor intensive setup
June 4, 2008
Pros
Cons
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.
Summary
xuckMay 2, 2008
Pros
Cons
Summary
Ill stick with NewsRover NO STARS
aucheornMay 1, 2008
Pros
Cons
I couln't work out how to get it to connect to my server. It is not intuative or helpfull.
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