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To: Joe Copia who wrote (16221)	6/7/1999 12:13:00 PM
From: Witold	Respond to of 25711

Any PNLK fans here? PNLK started commercials on TV and radio all over the country. Also, check out this article mentioning UPS, PNLK and HWP: Message 10002417 ******************* Jun. 04, 1999 (InternetWeek - CMP via COMTEX) -- United Parcel Service is extending its technology for secure delivery of electronic documents through partnerships. The company's Document Exchange, an electronic-document delivery and management service, is designed to combine the speed and low cost of e-mail with the security and tracking ability of traditional courier services. Document Exchange encrypts, transmits, tracks and verifies delivery of electronic documents. Users access the service through a Web site, attach the files to be sent and e-mail them from the same screen. A tracking log reports not only whether a document has been received, but also whether it has been opened for viewing. UPS uses 128-bit encryption to secure the transmissions, and documents also can be password-protected, so they can't be opened if received by the wrong person. The service costs $1 for most files. The price for traditional over-night delivery generally begins at around $10. Market watchers predict that roughly one-third of the overnight delivery market will move to the Internet within the next few years. ProNetLink.com, a global trade internetwork, this month will begin using UPS' technology to secure the exchange of documents over its site. Companies and government agencies doing business through the portal need assurance that the many documents involved in transactions are moved by a safe, encrypted method, said ProNetLink.com chairman Glenn Zagoren. ProNetLink.com selected UPS because its name recognition gives trading partners peace of mind to deal online through the company. Zagoren said an important benefit of the secure, verifiable transfer method will be to let companies exchange confidential requests for proposal through the Internet. RFPs usually must be delivered by courier under deadline restrictions. In another partnership, UPS late last month struck a deal with Hew-lett-Packard to combine the Document Exchange service with HP's 9100C Digital Sender. The Digital Sender scans paper documents, converts them to PDF or TIFF format and e-mails them as attachments. The scanned files also can be sent to a PC or printer within the network. HP and UPS hope creating a one-step, secure document-transmission method will appeal to businesses with fax-intensive operations that want better security, or to businesses sending high volumes of courier mail that want cost savings over courier services. HP product manager Chris Jones said one of the Digital Sender's unique features is a proprietary compression technology that reduces the file size for color documents by about 50 percent. Recognizing that the size of e-mail attachments is a concern for IT administrators managing e-mail traffic and storage, HP said the Digital Sender's average attachment size for a single letter-sized document is about 60 KB for a black-and-white page and about 400 KB for color. As an alternative to fax, the Digital Sender provides better document quality, and eliminates fax telephone charges and dedicated fax lines. The Digital Sender costs $3,000.