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To: ELH1006 who wrote (3115)	10/17/2000 9:42:52 AM
From: EACarl	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3661

RE "Eric, with regard to your goodwill question, at today's depressed price of $9.94, there would not be any goodwill, or very little;" Thanks Eddie, it seems that "the market" has already taken care of the goodwill problem for us.

To: ELH1006 who wrote (3115)	10/17/2000 11:05:50 PM
From: EACarl	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 3661

Eddie, Thanks again for your post. After doing some more research and reading page 33 I have come to the agree 100% with your conclusion.... RE "As long as the sector remains out-of-favor and depressed, seems to me that there is a huge benefit to close at these lower prices." While I'm not happy as a MTSN long at the recent price decline, it does seem the market has done us a great (long term) service. At the current prices we do not have to worry any more about what was $400 million in goodwill to amortize. Great news, and a great buy here at less than 1 times year 2000 pro forma sales (about .7 if I did the math right). Beep..... beep..... beep..... beep.... that's the sound of my truck being backed up to load MTSN shares. :-)