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L-SOFT RELEASES RECORD-BREAKING INTERNET MAIL DELIVERY SOFTWARE
100,000 SMTP DELIVERIES AN HOUR ON A $5,000 PC
February 14, 1996
(Washington, DC)... As more businesses take advantage of the speed and
cost-effectiveness of electronic mail, promotional Internet mailing lists
are popping up everywhere. Used to publicize everything from television
shows to software, these mailing lists can attract thousands of new
subscribers every week. However, this influx of potential customers can
be a mixed blessing for the companies that manage the lists: in contrast
to traditional bulk mail, per-subscriber costs and delivery times can
actually increase as an electronic mailing list grows. A machine hosting
a "hot" list can quickly require an upgrade. Even after investing in a
$75,000 top of the line Internet server, companies often find that they
can barely match the delivery times of traditional paper mail - turning a
successful online marketing campaign into an embarrassment.
Building on six years of experience with the delivery of massive volumes
of Internet mail on IBM(R) mainframes, L-Soft international, Inc. has
released a new Internet mail product, LSMTP(TM), that provides a cost
effective remedy to this impasse. Fully compliant with the Internet
standards for electronic mail, LSMTP(TM) can deliver up to 100,000
messages an hour on a $5,000 Pentium(R) computer running Windows NT(TM).
In contrast, a top of the line unix(R) workstation costing over $50,000
can deliver approximately 300,000 messages a day - and only after careful
tuning.
"LSMTP has allowed us to radically improve our service to the C|NET
community", says Ken Emery from C|NET: The Computer Network. "And we
don't mind the fact that, over the next year, it's also going to save us
nearly $100,000 in people hours and hardware costs." C|NET is using
LSMTP(TM) in tandem with L-Soft's LISTSERV(TM) product to deliver its
online newsletter, Digital Dispatch, to more than 320,000 subscribers
every week.
Speed without reliability would be meaningless, so it is reassuring to
know that the release of LSMTP(TM) follows 6 months of use on the largest
mail server on the Internet. Located at L-Soft's headquarters in
Landover, Maryland, this machine delivers over 2,000,000 messages a day.
But LSMTP(TM) is not just a product for the demanding few. Even sites
with modest workloads will appreciate LSMTP's "install and forget"
design, graphical real-time monitor and configuration utilities,
autopilot operation, full support for ESMTP (the Internet's Extended SMTP
mail protocol) and, of course, the lightning-fast delivery times.
"There is absolutely no comparison between our slick new NT/LSMTP
environment and the sendmail setup we were evaluating before", says Arty
Ecock, Senior Systems Programmer at the City University of New York
(CUNY). "With a great amount of unix knowledge and a good amount of time
devoted to tuning, I am sure that the unix machine would have worked to
some degree. Unfortunately, we have neither the time, the required skills
nor the inclination to pursue the sendmail solution. We like turn-key
solutions, and LSMTP is one turn-key solution that runs like a bat out of
hell." CUNY recently migrated its mainframe's LISTSERV(TM) workload (up
to 361,440 daily deliveries) to a 486/66 with 24M of RAM and LSMTP(TM).
This machine has since then become CUNY's central SMTP relay machine for
desktop PC and SLIP users.
Even on its most busy day, CUNY's humble 486 was able to maintain an
average delivery time of 1 minute and 52 seconds for 98% of the
recipients (the remaining 2% being delayed for reasons over which
LSMTP(TM) has no control, such as slow or poorly connected mail servers).
Although LSMTP(TM) works well as a standalone mail delivery engine, it is
most impressive when used in tandem with a mailing list manager, such as
L-Soft's popular LISTSERV(TM) product. Faster delivery times result in
more effective communication among mailing list subscribers. L-Soft is
offering substantial discounts on LSMTP(TM) to its LISTSERV(TM)
customers, and special LISTSERV/LSMTP bundles are available for new
customers.
For more information about LSMTP(TM), write to [log in to unmask] or visit
our web site at http://www.lsoft.com.
For more information about C|NET and Digital Dispatch, see
http://www.cnet.com.
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