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SPAM - L-Soft Int'l to release Net barrage product

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CS141-09 NT LIST SERVER PROMISES TO 
         DELIVER 2M MESSAGES DAILY

To capitalize on the explosion in Internet mass mailings, 
some would call it cyber-junk mail, L-Soft International has 
developed an NT list server that can barrage the Net with 
100,000 SMTP deliveries an hour from a $5,000-class Pentium 
server. The LSMTP server uses technology L-Soft originally 
developed for Internet list servers on IBM mainframes. 
Running internal tests for six months at its Landover, 
Maryland headquarters, L-Soft has been delivering an average 
two million messages a day, making it the busiest list 
server on the Net. It compares its performance to $50,000 
Unix servers typically rated at no more than 300,000 
messages a day. A LSMTP beta has been running at City 
University in New York, delivering as many as 361,440 e-
mails daily with NT Server on a 66MHz Intel 486-based server 
with 24MB of memory. CUNY had been using a mainframe list 
server. LSMTP pricing ranges from $6,250 for a 50 thread 
license and $9,500 for 200 threads to $18,750 for one with 
unlimited threads. The number of threads determines how many 
e-mails can be sent simultaneously. A "lite" NT version for 
users with more modest needs will cost around $500 and is 
set for release by the end of April. The company is also 
offering bundles combining LSMTP and its Listserv mailing 
list manager.