This Represents Increase of 14 Percent Over the Prior Quarter, Underscoring Rapid Growth and Success of the Sparklist On-demand Email Marketing Solutions

Sparklist, a subsidiary of J.L. Halsey (OTCBB:JLHY) and a leading provider of total self-service email marketing solutions, today announced that small businesses around the world used its on-demand email solutions to deliver more than 321 million messages in Q1 2006. This figure underscores the rapid growth and success of Sparklist's email deliverability worldwide, which has seen continual increases averaging 14% each quarter over the last two years in its emails sent. In the fourth quarter of 2005 alone, Sparklist sent more than 296 million messages, a 12 percent increase from the third quarter of 2005 and a 35 percent increase from the same period in 2004.

Sparklist continues to provide companies world wide with affordable hosted email marketing software. Known for its simple interface, advanced functionality, powerful reporting, reliability, and longstanding commitment to its customers' email marketing needs, Sparklist's total service email marketing solutions makes it affordable and safe to deliver mass email marketing communications to customers' desktops.

"The latest email deliverability figures continue to validate the power and related growth of our industry-leading on-demand email solution," states Jason Han, Director of Sales Operations, Sparklist. "To date, Sparklist has been the only major on-demand email marketing leader willing to share these figures. And we are proud of the extensive email marketing expertise they represent. The continued growth of our email volume is a strong testament to the faith our customers put in us to expertly handle their critical information and to our focus on ensuring that we consistently exceed their expectations."

About Sparklist

One of the largest email list hosting services in the world, Sparklist serves over 1,000 businesses in widely diverse industries and has an impressive client list, sending millions of opt-in email messages every month. The success of Sparklist is based on the power and scalability of its hosting packages, the company's expertise in email marketing, and the cutting-edge technology behind the solution. Serving small to medium-sized businesses with highly sophisticated email marketing programs, Sparklist promotes the highest standards of opt-in email marketing best practices through its hosting service which is unrivalled in terms of reliability, deliverability, speed and capacity. Sparklist is a subsidiary of the J.L. Halsey Corporation (OTCBB:JLHY), along with Lyris Technologies and EmailLabs. For more information, go to http://www.sparklist.com.