April 19, 1999, San Mateo, Calif. - ONElist, Inc. (http://www.onelist.com), the leading provider of free e-mail list and group communication technologies for average users of the Internet, today announced the addition of three significant new features for its 3+ million members. With the addition of Group Calendars, User Surveys and File Sharing to its top-ranked, free e-mail list services, ONElist now offers the richest set of group communication and collaboration capabilities on the Internet.
"The rapid introduction of innovative new product features has been the hallmark of ONElist since the day we pioneered our service," said Mark Fletcher, founder and CEO of ONElist. "By offering new avenues for our members to share more complex and meaningful information with each other, ONElist facilitates richer online communities. Our highly scalable architecture will provide the users of these new features with the same reliable, fast and secure performance they have enjoyed with our e-mail list capabilities."

New ONElist features announced today include:

• ONElist Calendar is a members-only feature that allows users to easily post meetings and events that are of interest to each ONElist community. The ONElist calendar also allows owners to send email notification to members reminding them of upcoming community events. For example, a health discussion community can utilize the ONElist Calendar to alert members to upcoming medical conferences, important publication dates, and future discussion forums, while a ONElist small business user can use the ONElist Calendar to schedule appointments for clients or alert customers about upcoming product specials or sales.
• ONElist Shared Files is a private, list-specific area where members can exchange documents, such as photos, recipes, articles, and business documents. In addition to being able to easily share rich documents among members in an e-mail community, Shared Files allow ONElist members to build a "library" of information for their unique community. For instance, groups of people working together on projects such as class reunions, screenwriting or family photo albums can post documents to the Shared Files area and collaborate via ONElist*freed from bulky e-mail file attachments.

ONElist Shared Files also helps list owners store and specify documents to be distributed to their members upon certain conditions, such as when users subscribe or unsubscribe to a ONElist community. For example, ONElist Shared Files helps to manage and automate welcome and goodbye messages and other common reminders. Files can also be automatically distributed to a ONElist community on a regular basis, freeing list moderators from this time consuming task.
• ONElist User Survey Tool, enables list moderators to quickly and easily issue questionnaires to their community members. For example, a list owner can take a poll of community opinion on a current event or gather relevant demographic information about the community. Using the ONElist User Survey Tool, surveys are easy to administer and easy for users to respond. Owners can deliver one question at a time (with either single or multiple choice answers) and view the results in real-time.

Launched in 1998, ONElist, Inc. is the world's leading provider of free e-mail list and group communication technologies for average users of the Internet. Today, the ONElist service hosts over 130,000 lists, with members exchanging more than 13 million e-mail messages each day. ONElist is based in San Mateo, Calif. and is privately held. The company has received venture funding from @Ventures III, the affiliated venture capital arm of CMGI, Inc. (NASDAQ: CMGI) and Bertelsmann Ventures, the independent venture capital fund of Bertelsmann AG.

For more information, visit ONElist's Web site at http://www.onelist.com.