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                L-SOFT DONATES INTERNET SERVER TO KIDLINK

                              May 5th, 1995

(Washington, DC) L-Soft international, Inc. announces that KIDLINK is the
latest recipient  of their Awards  for Student Internet  Innovations. The
award consists of a high-end Pentium(TM) system and an unlimited capacity
version  of  L-Soft's  LISTSERV(TM) electronic  mailing  list  management
software.

KIDLINK is a  grassroots project which gets children  aged 10-15 involved
in  a global  dialog,  mainly through  the  use of  the  Internet and  of
LISTSERV electronic mailing  lists. Since its start in  1990, over 35,000
children from 67 countries have participated in the project.

KIDLINK  uses LISTSERV  lists  to help  students  find Internet  penpals,
called  "keypals".  In  public  forums,  called  KIDCAFEs,  they  discuss
themselves, their ambitions,  how the world could be a  better place, and
what they can do now to make all this happen.

Other lists  are used  by educators operating  short and  long-term joint
projects, such as  the recent "Virtual China"  project. Classrooms around
the  world communicated  with  groups  of 7th  grade  Hong Kong  students
travelling by  bicycle through rural  southern China, and to  the ancient
city of Xi'an - home of the famous Terra Cotta Soldiers.

Teams of students  play key roles in the operation  of KIDLINK. Some work
as WIZARDS, a term for volunteers providing help to all new users. Others
help develop Web  pages, or participate in the  administration of mailing
lists.

Susan  Lowell, L-Soft's  Communications and  Marketing Coordinator,  says
"KIDLINK was chosen to receive the  award because it empowers students to
build their own world-wide community, giving them a unique opportunity to
explore a multicultural environment while  providing them with a place to
experiment with their own Internet projects".

"Thanks to the  donation, we will be  able to take full  advantage of the
World Wide Web technology for our  projects," says Odd de Presno, founder
of KIDLINK.  "For example,  by exhibiting  the hundreds  of items  in our
Gallery of  Computer Art, we  hope to make  the Internet a  more inviting
place  for the  world's  children.  We expect  this  to increase  student
communication through KIDLINK as well."

Knowing firsthand how  important it is to support students  who are eager
to make contributions  to the world, L-Soft's Eric  Thomas encouraged the
company to set up  the Awards program earlier this year.  When he was 15,
Thomas wrote  a sophisticated file  server from which some  of LISTSERV's
key functions were later derived. One year later, he wrote an interactive
learning program and a set of  tutorials for the Palais de la Decouverte,
then the  largest science  museum in  Paris. Thomas'  contribution helped
millions  of museum  visitors  discover the  basic  concepts of  computer
programming.

L-Soft  has earmarked  $50,000.00 for  donations to  student groups  with
innovative ideas  for making  the Internet  more useful  to non-technical
users. These "Awards for Student  Internet Innovations" consist mostly of
high-end personal computers and related equipment, together with licenses
for LISTSERV(TM).  To be considered  for an award, student  groups should
send  electronic mail  to AWARDS@LSOFT.COM  with a  description of  their
association and projects.

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You can reach KIDLINK via web browser at http://www.kidlink.org
You can reach L-Soft via web browser at http://www.lsoft.com

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