Sent from: info@fringeware.com (Anon of FringeWare) 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.