A small program application that allows you to download 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.
Features:
* 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.
* Advanced multi server support. (This allows you to download from a free server supplied by your ISP and use a pay server to fill in whatever is missing).
* Search Usenet without downloading headers using online search engines or use the capability to offload article search to your news server.
* Multi threaded server downloading.
* Find and filter articles based on keywords.
* View tag clouds from subscribed servers.
* Pause function to free bandwidth.
* Full support for NZB and NBI files allowing you to share settings and download files.
* If your news server supports it, all information passed between your computer and the news server is encrypted using SSL.
* Ability to view thumbnails of downloaded files.
* Ability to organize downloaded audio files in album folders.
* Automatic repair and extraction of downloaded files.
* Virtual groups allowing you to view only specific types of articles contained in multiple groups.
* Ability to post articles.

The license of this software is Free Trial Software, you can free download and get a free trial before you buy. If you want to get a full or nolimited version of Sponge, you can buy this network utility software software.