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IntelliReach Releases MessageScreen 3.0 Anti-Spam Solution

Email Management Leader Acquires MessageScreen Technology from MX Sciences; Rules and Scoring-based Offering Provides One of the Industry’s Highest Catch Rates

Dedham, Mass, January 22, 2003 - IntelliReach Corporation, the leading provider of email management solutions, today announced the availability of MessageScreen 3.0, a powerful anti-spam solution that has one of the industry’s highest catch rates. Concurrently, IntelliReach announced the acquisition of MX Sciences, Inc. of Chicago, Ill., which developed the technology. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

“This move immediately makes IntelliReach a viable player in the fast growing anti-spam market,” said Michael Osterman, founder and President of Osterman Research and renowned messaging expert. “IntelliReach has adopted a unique delivery model with MessageScreen. The full suite of offerings now available will allow IntelliReach to capitalize on the growing need to not only stop spam, but also limit legal liability and ensure compliance to policies and regulations.”

MessageScreen is a rules-based content filtering solution that stops spam before it enters the messaging environment. It uses sophisticated lexicon intelligence and scoring to analyze spam and filter unsolicited email based on that criteria. The rules are constantly fine tuned and updated automatically to match the latest spamming techniques, with minimal requirements for administrator support. This industry leading approach reduces spam while ensuring the delivery of legitimate email.

Email management is a critical corporate issue. Email traffic is expected grow at a rate of 30% per year, with corporations expected to receive more than 26 billion emails per day by 2005, according to IDC. In addition, IDC research indicates that up to 60% of critical business information is transacted via email and stored in that environment. Inappropriate email content, when externally leaked, can cost organizations hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars in direct and indirect costs.

Greg Arnette, founder and CEO of IntelliReach, added, “By integrating the MX Sciences technology into our suite of email management solutions, IntelliReach’s customers will benefit from best-of-breed content filtering that eliminates more spam than any other solution on the market today. Unsolicited emails cost the typical 1,000 user organization an estimated $185,500 in network resources and lost productivity. MessageScreen reduces the majority of these costs while eliminating the countless number of hours administrators spend sifting through quarantined messages.”

About IntelliReach

IntelliReach Corporation is the leading provider of powerful, easy-to-use email management solutions. With IntelliReach solutions, organizations can prevent spam and email abuse, quickly recover from system failures, and plan for the future of their messaging environment. IntelliReach is a privately held company headquartered in Dedham, Mass.