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To: Walcalla who wrote (30405)	9/6/1999 9:13:00 PM
From: Time Traveler	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 41369

These The-street.com guys are pathetic. They could not even nail the current AOL price correctly. To do so (correct me if I am wrong) is one of the easiest research on the internet. Why do these guys have so much difficulty? Do they know what they are talking about? I start to wonder.

To: Walcalla who wrote (30405)	9/7/1999 1:14:00 AM
From: DOUG H	Respond to of 41369

When you make silly assumptions you get silly results. <VVBBGG> ............................................................... Since the business model seems right, we had our analysts estimate what the future stock of AOL would be worth once the TV model was fully implemented. We assumed that revenues and profits from access fees for AOL's proprietary content would decline to zero in five years and that revenues and profits from advertising and e-commerce revenues would replace the loss of access fees in the same amount. ...................................................................