WebThreads L.L.C. is pleased to announce

                              WebThreads(tm)

                   ****  Call for Alpha Testers  ****

DESCRIPTION:

WebThreads(tm) is a lightweight and easy to install set of CGI scripts
written entirely in C that greatly enhance the flexibility, interactivity
and visitor traffic reporting accuracy of standard World Wide Web servers.

WebThreads allows you to easily create web sites that REACT to visitors on an
individual basis while providing you with much more information about what
visitors are doing on your site.

WebThreads (tm) extends the capabilities of standard World Wide Web servers,
such as Apache, NCSA, and CERN, to include:

1. Per Visitor Tracking and Reporting (Not Hit Counts!!)

   WebThreads(tm) creates a unique session, aka "Thread", for each visitor
   that comes to a site. Every request that each visitor makes to the
   web site is separately recorded and time/date stamped. As a result,
   complete "click trails" are maintained for each visitor.

   These session recordings are then dumped into industry standard
   Dbase IV(tm) compatible database files. A number of password-protected
   on-line reports can be run off of these databases to provide such
   statistics as:

   a. number of unique visitors to the web site
   b. average number of pages requested per visitor
   c. most popular entry page/most popular exit page
   d. average duration of a visit to the site
   e. average time spent viewing a given page
   f. etc.

2. Per Visitor "State"/Interactivity/Dynamic Page Generation

   In conjunction with the Per Visitor Tracking, a live "memory" of visitor
   actions is maintained and follows the visitor as he travels through
   a site. Depending on visitor actions, items can be added or removed from
   the state dynamically.

   WebThreads(tm) also offers a custom extension to the HTML layout language
   (which we call Interactive HTML) that allows a webmaster to specify
   directly within the HTML files themselves how those pages should
   change on the fly based on what the viewing visitor has done on the site.

   For example, WebThreads(tm) makes the following kinds of things possible:

   a. Welcome messages that only appear the first time a particular page
      is viewed by a given visitor.

   b. Active table of contents that displays where the visitors have yet to
      go.

   c. Helpful hints that that guide your visitor through the site based on
      where they've been?

   d. Radically change the way a site looks based on visitor responses
      to FORMS.

   e. Directed marketing and narrowcasting.

   f. etc.

   The extension is targeted toward people familiar with HTML but not
   necessarily with programming. As such, the extension has been kept very
   simple.

   The browsers never see any of the WebThreads iHTML extension, in contrast
   to JavaScript(tm), which can be seen from the browser. All the WebThreads
   iHTML "magic" is hidden from the visitors. All they ever see is standard
   HTML.

WORKS WITH ANY BROWSER

   WebThreads(tm) works with any browser and therefore is NOT Netscape
   specific.

WORKS WITH ANY STANDARD SERVER

   WebThreads(tm) has been tested with the Apache, NCSA, and CERN HTTP
   servers. It should work with any server that correctly implements the
   CGI 1.0 spec.

DOES NOT REQUIRE ROOT ACCESS:

   If you have a virtual web server running at an ISP, you can still use
   WebThreads(tm). It only requires CGI-BIN access to install and run.

EASY TO INSTALL:

   WebThreads(tm) installation is completely automated. It consists of
   unpacking the distribution and running "configure". This brands and
   installs the software into your CGI-BIN directory.

NON-INTRUSIVE TEST DRIVE:

   WebThreads(tm) does not require you to change your web site in any
   way. The software installs into your CGI-BIN directory. Your HTML files
   are not touched in any way. Your existing CGI scripts will run under
   WebThreads (tm) as they did before. You can test drive WebThreads(tm)
   yourself before making it available to your outside visitors by simply
   calling it up in your browser with your home page. For instance if your
   home page is index.html and your site is foo.com, you could just run
   webthreads on your site from your browser without changing your sites
   configuration at all simply by opening the URL

            "http://www.foo.com/cgi-bin/wt.cgi/index.html".

   From that point on, every page you view during that visit will be run
   through WebThreads(tm).

LICENSE:

   We are currently looking for alpha testers.

   Anyone who registers with our alpha test program, uses the software
   and displays the WebThreads logo on their site will receive a free copy
   of the initial commercial release of the software when it becomes
   available.

   See our web site http://www.webthreads.com for more information.

AVAILABILITY:

   WebThreads 1.0alpha1 for the Linux operating system is currently
   available for download from http://www.webthreads.com. This alpha version
   will expire June 30th. A new version will be placed on the web site
   before the 30th.

COMING SOON:

   The Solaris 2.4 for Sparc port will be announced shortly.

   "Persistent Threads" allow registered users to set state variables that
   the system remembers between visits which in turn allows reporting on
   repeat visits.

   Many more reports will be added such as browser type by percentage of
   traffic, per-domain reports, per-host reports, etc.

FOR MORE INFO:

   For more information and a demonstration of WebThreads' capabilities,
   please visit our web site at http://www.webthreads.com or send email
   to i...@webthreads.com.

Dbase III (tm) is a registered trademark of Borland Corporation.
JavaScript (tm) is a registered trademark of Netscape Corporation.

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Yermo Lamers            http://www.WebThreads.Com        y...@WebThreads.Com
Internet & Unix Systems                                  Md, USA
Chief Technology Officer, WebThreads L.L.C.