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Stardock Releases PlusPak: PMINews for OS/2!
     Powerful OS/2 News Reader from the makers of PMMail now available!
For Immediate Release
Monday, June 09, 1997
Contact: Alexander Antoniades
Stardock Systems, Inc.
Canton MI -- Stardock Systems, Inc., a leading OS/2 software vendor, released 
the second product in the PlusPak series  PlusPak: PMINews.
PlusPak: PMINews is the result of several months of close collaboration 
between Stardock, OS/2s leading commercial software vendor, and
SouthSoft, OS/2s leading shareware company.
PlusPak: PMINews was designed from scratch to be "the ultimate newsreader" 
and contains many features designed to appeal to both the
casual Internet user as well as USENET news junkies.
Some of the features include:
Multiple Server Support.  Users with access to more than a single news server 
can now combine the power of those news servers for their own
use.  PlusPak: PMINews integrates multiple news servers into a single master 
list of all available newsgroups.
Multiple GroupLists.  If you read a significant number of newsgroups, 
multiple GroupLists are likely to be one of the most useful and unique
features of PlusPak: PMINews.  Users can have different sets of newsgroups in 
each GroupList. Each GroupList can also contain its own
settings, such as different email addresses, signatures, custom filters, etc.
Advanced Filtering and Searching.  Users can filter out particular users or 
entire threads they do not wish to not see again with only a couple
mouse clicks.  PlusPak: PMINews search features allow users to search any 
portion of a post or newsgroup filter the results based on a
particular attribute.  Boolean relationships can be used in searches and 
filtering. For example, a user could create a single filter that searches for
posts that are cross-posted into ALT. newsgroups AND has the word "money" in 
the subject.  For true newsgroup power users, PlusPak:
PMINews also comes with its own filtering language.  PlusPak:PMINews example 
filters, when activated, can help weed out SPAM and filter
binary newsgroups to only display messages with actual attachments. Few 
newsreaders on any platform can even remotely compare to
PlusPak: PMINews anti-SPAM features, all of which are user viewable and 
customizable to help make your newsgroup experience less of a
hassle.
Offline support. Rather than forcing you to stay connected to the Internet 
while browsing messages of interest, PlusPak: PMINews includes
extensive off-line support to minimize your time online and maximize your 
newsgroup viewing experience. After marking the messages or
threads you wish to view, simply let PlusPak: PMINews download them to your 
machine to view at your leisure. You can even create filters to
automatically download messages that are of interest to you!
Spell Checking.  The spell checking features of PlusPak: PMINews help ensure 
that your posts do not go out with a bunch of unnecessary
spelling mistakes.  The spell checkers dictionary is dynamic and highly 
configurable. The more you use it, the better it will be at correcting your
mistakes.
Integration with the worlds best selling OS/2 mail program.  Because PlusPak: 
PMINews has been developed by SouthSoft, it integrates
seamlessly with PMMail.  If PMMail and PlusPak: PMINews are both installed to 
the same directory, address books and drag-and-drop can be
shared between the two products.
Excellent binary news group handling. Users who download images, shareware, 
sounds, and other binary files from Internet newsgroups will be
pleased to find that binary posts are treated as actual files.  These files 
can be dragged and dropped to the desktop or even manipulated right
from the post itself.  Moreover, PlusPak: PMINews also handles multiple-part 
binary postings.
A ton of usability features. The number of convenient little features in 
PlusPak: PMINews are too numerous to articulate. Developers at both
SouthSoft and Stardock have years of experience using Internet newsgroups and 
sought to bring to OS/2 a news reader that supplied the vast
majority of feature requests from the various newsreader wishlists that have 
ever existed.
PlusPak:PMINews is currently available from Stardocks on-line commerce server 
(http://www.stardock.com).  PlusPak: PMINews lists for
$34.95, but it is only $29.95 off the commerce server.  Users can also order 
by phone at1-888-STARDOCK or 313-762-0687.  PlusPak:
PMINews will soon be available via Stardocks reseller network, along with 
other PlusPak products.  A special bundling of PMMail and PMINews
will be available from Stardock later this week.
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PlusPak: PMINews
$34.95 ($29.95 from Stardocks electronic commerce server)
Email: sales@stardock.com
Phone: (313) 762-0687
Fax: (313) 762-0690
Site licensing available.
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