Message Systems Adds ISP Email Services and Infrastructure Expert to Carrier Solutions Sales Team

COLUMBIA, MD, Jul 22 (MARKET WIRE) --
Email solutions provider Message Systems announced today that Martin Deen
has joined the company as Solutions Architect for Message Systems'
high-performance email delivery system. With more than a decade of
experience designing, deploying and operating ISP email services, Deen
brings a wealth of technical and industry knowledge to Message Systems
where he evaluates customer messaging challenges and maps out solutions
using Message Systems products.

"Martin is a welcomed addition to our sales and marketing team," said
Barry Abel, Message Systems' vice president of Field Operations. "His deep
understanding and working knowledge of carrier-class email systems --
including the engineering, operations and architecture groups within the
Internet delivery organization of MSOs and Telcos -- and his system
operations experience managing complex carrier environments consisting of
hundreds of servers and national networks makes him invaluable to both our
sales team and our customers, especially during the product evaluation
phase."

Prior to joining Message Systems, Deen served as senior sales engineer for
Bizanga and was principal systems engineer for Openwave Systems. He was
also manager of the High Speed Internet Messaging Team at Cox
Communications where he established Cox's consumer email platform, which
supported over three million mail accounts and was awarded PC World's
highest rating. He also served as senior infrastructure specialist for
EDS/BellSouth and was an Internet technologist for CTG. While serving as a
network architect for BellSouth.net in 2000, he designed, engineered and
implemented a new central email server to support more than a million
users. Over the course of his professional career, Deen has obtained an
extensive technical background in design and engineering with wireless
operators, telecommunications companies and Internet service providers.

Deen was a founding member of the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group
(MAAWG), serving on the original Board of Directors. He was also the
organization's first Collaboration Committee chairperson and he wrote
MAAWG's original Code of Conduct.

About Message Systems

Founded in 1997, Message Systems is a worldwide provider of email software
solutions and services for email service providers (ESPs), Internet
service providers (ISPs) and large enterprises that need to manage the
delivery of large amounts of business-critical email. Through a
combination of technology, partnerships and intellectual capital, Message
Systems offers a family of software solutions and services that address
the email infrastructure and deliverability needs for organizations
ranging from regional businesses to the Global 2000. With the most
powerful Message Transfer Agent (MTA) on the market supporting more than
100,000 concurrent connections per server, Message Systems gets millions
of unique messages to the right place at the right time. Headquartered in
Columbia, Maryland, Message Systems has a network of channel partners in
North America, Europe and Asia. For more information, go to
www.messagesystems.com.

Contact:
Angela McMahon
Carabiner Communications
404-543-9636
amcmahon@carabinerpr.com

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