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         L-SOFT EARMARKS $50,000 FOR DONATIONS TO STUDENT GROUPS

                           December 31st, 1994

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

(Washington, DC) To celebrate the  New Year, L-Soft International Inc. is
earmarking $50,000 for donations to  student groups with innovative ideas
for making the Internet more  useful to non-technical users. These Awards
for Student Internet Innovations will consist mostly of high-end personal
computers  and related  equipment,  together with  licenses for  L-Soft's
renowned  LISTSERV(TM)   software  for   easy  electronic   mailing  list
management. The equipment is to be used to support LISTSERV(TM) and other
Internet tools, such as World Wide Web and gopher servers, plus of course
the students'  own projects. L-Soft  will not assert ownership  rights to
the software the students develop. To be considered for an award, student
groups should send electronic mail to AWARDS@LSOFT.COM with a description
of their association and projects.

The  first  recipient  of  these awards  is  NetSpace,  a  student-driven
Internet project  at Brown University  which is "dedicated  to supporting
student innovation  with computers and the  Internet". Projects currently
underway at NetSpace address such issues as the environment, world hunger
and cooperative  living. NetSpace also  provides a meeting point  for the
fans  of various  musical  groups, including  the  alternative rock  band
Phish. Lee Silverman, founder of NetSpace, describes the project in these
terms: "Essentially,  what we have tried  to do is create  a culture much
like the  Internet used  to be:  people learn how  to solve  problems and
share the solutions with others when they  need them. So far, it has been
a remarkable  success." LISTSERV(TM) mailing  lists will be  an essential
component  of  new  NetSpace  developments,  nurturing  the  creation  of
"Internet  neighborhoods"   that  bring  together  people   with  similar
interests, without the geographical limitations of traditional media.

Eric Thomas,  Manager of Design and  Development at L-Soft and  author of
LISTSERV(TM), remembers the difficulties he had, as a college student, in
getting support and access to  equipment on which to develop LISTSERV(TM)
and other  networking tools. "As a  student, it can be  very difficult to
get support  or funding  for your  ideas. When  I was  in college,  I was
fortunate enough  to be  offered free  access to  an IBM(R)  mainframe at
another  university,   with  no  strings   attached,  and  this   is  how
LISTSERV(TM) came to be. If I hadn't had the freedom to work as I pleased
or if  the university had asserted  ownership rights to my  work, I would
probably have  done something else  with my  time. I wish  more companies
would extend such opportunities to students  because, in the long run, it
benefits everyone."

Dedicated hardware is particularly difficult for student organizations to
come by. According to Silverman, "The  hardware donated by L-Soft will be
a boon to NetSpace because our  current server has been overloaded by the
traffic  generated by  a new  mailing  list supporting  the Linux  server
community." Linux, a unix(R) operating  system for personal computers, is
the result  of an ongoing cooperative  effort by Internet users  all over
the world,  and is available at  no cost on the  Internet. "By supporting
communication between individuals involved in this effort, NetSpace makes
a significant  contribution to  the international Linux  community", adds
Silverman.

Since  its inception  in  1986,  LISTSERV(TM) has  set  the standard  for
electronic mailing  lists. On  an average weekday,  LISTSERV(TM) delivers
between 6.5 and 8 million messages to  a subscriber base in excess of 1.8
million. While  most of  LISTSERV's 16,000 lists  are used  to coordinate
project development, reduce paperwork and  the need for conference calls,
and to host thematic discussions on thousands of different topics, L-Soft
is looking forward to the new,  creative uses that students will find for
LISTSERV(TM) when given free reign with the software.

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Lee Silverman can be reached over the Internet at
lee@netspace.students.brown.edu.
Eric Thomas can be reached at eric@lsoft.com.

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