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      GRADUATED CHARGING LOWERS COST OF ENTRY-LEVEL CONFIGURATIONS
              TO A FRACTION OF A PERSONAL COMPUTER'S PRICE

                          September 12th, 1994

In a  continued effort  to make  its popular  LISTSERV product  line more
accessible to small businesses, K-12 schools and other organizations with
a limited budget for  networking applications, L-Soft International, Inc.
("L-Soft") is introducing Graduated Charging  for the unix(R) and VMS(TM)
versions of LISTSERV.  Customers may now opt for  graduated charges based
on the capacity  they actually need, instead of the  traditional flat fee
for  unlimited usage.  Graduated  Charging makes  it  possible for  small
organizations to deploy the state of  the art in mailing list management,
with entry prices as low as $625/year (corporate) or $500/year (academic)
- including  maintenance and  technical assistance.  The flat  fee option
will, of course, remain available for larger organizations.

With  Graduated  Charging,  customers  sign up  for  a  predefined  usage
capacity, measured in license "points".  The customer is invoiced for the
number of  points that were  ordered, and receives a  "License Activation
Key"  (LAK)  that will  enforce  the  purchased  capacity. Thus,  if  the
administrator attempts  to create more  lists than the  licensed capacity
allows, LISTSERV will simply reject  the request (and continue to operate
normally).  Capacity  upgrades, in  the  form  of  updated LAKs,  can  be
delivered on  short notice via  FAX or electronic mail.  Finally, because
prices are always  fixed in advance, rather than being  based on measured
usage, the customer  retains control of the amount of  committed funds at
all times.

Customers who  already own  a perpetual license  for unlimited  usage can
also  benefit from  Graduated  Charging. These  customers  will have  the
option, at  the end  of their  current maintenance term,  to sign  up for
graduated  maintenance  on  top  of their  existing,  perpetual  license.
Because it need not include a license, graduated maintenance is even more
accessible than a regular graduated license.

Finally, Graduated Charging provides the flexibility needed by the myriad
businesses and organizations that have  just begun exploring the Internet
and the possibilities  of group communication software.  Because there is
no capital  investment, customers need  not worry about buying  a product
whose in-house acceptance will remain unknown until effectively deployed,
or  about  selecting  the  right  operating system  from  the  outset.  A
graduated license  can be  turned in  at any time  for a  prorated credit
towards the purchase  of a similar license for  another operating system.
Thus, a PC oriented customer could  purchase a graduated license for a PC
unix(R) system,  and later exchange it  for a Windows NT(R)  license when
the  NT(R)  version of  LISTSERV  is  released.  The  only cost  of  this
transition  would  be the  unix(R)  system  license, which  would  become
redundant  after the  migration. If,  as usage  increases, the  PC is  no
longer able to support the entire  workload, the graduated license can be
turned in for  two licenses with the  same total capacity, at  a very low
additional cost. Similarly, graduated licenses from multiple machines can
be exchanged for a single license for a larger central server.

Graduated  Charging  is the  first  milestone  in L-Soft's  strategy  for
bringing affordable  state of the  art group communication  technology to
small businesses  and organizations. Lowering  the cost of  the software,
however, is only part of the solution. We must also help small businesses
lower their hardware  and manpower costs, by making it  possible for them
to run LISTSERV  on their existing PC servers, under  an operating system
they are already  familiar with. Thus, our next step  is to port LISTSERV
to the  Windows(R) family of  operating systems, starting with  a Windows
NT(R) version that we expect to  start beta-testing before the end of the
year.

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