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To: Baldur Fjvlnisson who wrote (1108)	5/1/2002 2:35:35 PM
From: andydaoust	Respond to of 1567

Baldur, I totally agree that the fluff is pointless. I meant "not good" as in, if the companies acquisitions worked the way they should have, then the value of the companies acquired should have risen, not crashed. I think it is smart to buy a company with your over-valued stock as currency. The problem was companies were paying extremely over-valued prices for these startups. This then diluted acquiring shareholders value by buying companies with no value. In a sense AOL was smart to by Time Warner's real assets with their super-inflated currency. I'm not saying AOL is or was a good investment. Writing off goodwill now will allow future earnings to be reported with out the negative effects of goodwill on earnings. Andy D