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Likewise, as part of its "Give back to the Net" initiative, America Online (NYSE: AOL) rescued hundreds of virtual communities, becoming the 3rd largest LISTSERV site in the process and one of only two sites to have a combined mailing list membership in excess of 1 million.</p> <p>For all these efforts, however, thousands of informal communities now have to rely on less than ideal accommodations – typically, one of the members' employer agreed to tolerate the presence of the list on that person's PC or workstation. While the machines in question are usually powerful enough to deliver fast service, freeware mailing list management software has not improved much in the last few years, and functionality leaves to be desired. Likewise, all the popular freeware packages are unix based and require programming skills for simple customization tasks, which some of the less technical groups may lack.</p> <p>To allow these communities to upgrade to commercial grade software at no charge, L-Soft international, Inc., is making available a free version of its LISTSERV Lite mailing list manager, strictly for non-profit use. Dubbed the "Free Edition", this package is functionally identical to the commercial LISTSERV Lite product, with a limit of 10 mailing lists of up to 500 subscribers each. In fact, the Free Edition also serves as the evaluation kit for the commercial product. Upgrades can be downloaded at no charge as they become available and, in the Internet tradition, support is provided through a mailing list where users of the Free Edition exchange tips and solutions with each other. The Free Edition is available for Windows NT, Windows 95, 10 major unix brands and OpenVMS. 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