Excedent Technologies Chooses Habeas to Fight Spam

Palo Alto, CA (November 13, 2002) - Habeasâ„¢, the company that fights spam with poetry and the law, and Excedent, a global leader in Web-based and wireless email hosting solutions, announced today that Excedent has adopted the Habeas Sender Warranted Emailâ„¢ (SWE) service to help its customers fight spam and make sure their critical messages get delivered.

"We believe that Habeas adds significant value to the service we provide to customers because it helps ensure that their permission-based messages reach recipients who want them," said Pat Matthews, CEO of Excedent. "A lost email could literally cause thousands of dollars in lost business to the small and medium-sized businesses which rely on us for outsourced mail services."

Excedent specializes in providing email hosting services to small businesses and service providers who want enterprise-class reliability, flexibility and protection against spam, viruses and intruders. They service more than 1,000 clients worldwide.

"Habeas helps email outsourcing companies like Excedent differentiate by offering their customers a way to deliver mail with confidence that the messages will get through," said Anne P. Mitchell, Esq., CEO of Habeas. "As more and more Internet Service Providers and organizations adopt the Habeas service, email with the Habeas mark passes more efficiently through the Internet without interruption from filters and blackholes."

Habeas' patent-pending service works by trademarking and copyrighting a unique set of lines, known as the warrant mark, which is embedded in the headers of outgoing email. Included is a haiku poem, a form of Japanese poetry. Copyright offers legal protection to the poetry. Trademark offers legal protection to other parts of the email header.

Spammers who improperly use the Habeas warrant mark can be prosecuted under international trademark and copyright law. Habeas can seek penalties of $1 million and more, shut down offenders through injunction, and in severe cases refer them for criminal prosecution. The Habeas service is free to Internet Service Providers and individuals. Organizations pay a nominal annual fee while commercial bulk email providers sending verified permission mailings pay based on mail volume.

About Excedent Technologies
Excedent is a global leader in Web-based and wireless email hosting solutions. Our mission is to provide companies around the world with a secure, reliable infrastructure to facilitate effective business communication. We work with small businesses and service providers of all sizes to deploy mission critical Web-based and wireless email systems. The company is privately held and has been serving clients since October 1999. For more information, please visit www.excedent.com.

About Habeas Inc.
Based in Palo Alto, California, Habeas is a private company with venture funding that offers a legal and user-based service designed to eradicate spam. Launched in August 2002, the Habeas service is already used by 30 million mail addresses and 45,000 Web portals in more than 100 countries. Habeas boasts advisory boards comprised of world-leading experts in law and technology, including renowned anti-spam attorney Michael Grow, Internet Mail Consortium director Paul Hoffman, and "Internet for Dummies" author John Levine. For more information, visit Habeas on the Web at www.habeas.com.

Habeas and Habeas Sender Warranted Email are registered trademarks of Habeas, Inc. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the trademarks or copyrights of their respective owners.