AUSTIN, Texas, April 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Challenging businesses to prove to themselves that the cost of SPAM is hurting their bottom line, Net-Sieve, Inc. (www.net-sieve.com) today announced the "Net-Sieve Challenge." Under the Challenge, Net-Sieve will pay qualified companies that install their product at their location for two weeks $10 for every non-SPAM email message that they block and the company will pay $1 for every SPAM message blocked, some restrictions apply. Details are available at the Net-Sieve's web site by visiting http://www.net-sieve.com/challenge. Net-Sieve also announced the acquisition of two new customers:

-- AbaNet (www.abanet.net), a Mexican ASP with Motorola's Wireless Internet Platform "Canopy" and Intel's WiFi HotSpot Project partnership at several locations throughout Mexico, has chosen the Net-Sieve platform to help solve their customers' SPAM problems and pornographic blocking. "With this solution, we plan to deliver a Wireless high speed Internet access with Net-Sieve's anti-Spam & content Filtering bundled service. This will give us four arms more to differentiate toward competitors," said Mauricio E. de la Torre Ayala, Chief Sales Officer of AbaNet.

-- Home Federal Savings Bank based in Rochester, Minnesota has also become a satisfied Net-Sieve customer. "I liked the feature set, plug and play nature of the unit and obviously, the effectiveness or stopping most of our SPAM and not blocking genuine email message to and from customers," said Roberts M. Hoenisch Sr. of Home Federal Saving Bank.

The Net-Sieve products block SPAM email and pornographic images transmitted to a web browser or via email. The product resides between a company's or ISP's (Internet service provider) connection to the Internet via both incoming and outgoing Ethernet connections. The Net-Sieve products examine the contents and images of a web site and determines whether the site displays what is commonly accepted as pornographic content. "The Return on Investment (ROI) for installing a SPAM-filtering device at company is a matter of days before it typically pays for itself in regained productivity, said Dewey Coffman, President and CEO of Net-Sieve. "Complete Internet filtering including web-filtering can show a quicker ROI, the Net- Sieve product can do both."