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To: - who wrote (21905)	5/30/1999 10:19:00 AM
From: Pruguy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27307

In this case, isn't it also possible this was done as a corporate hedge regarding their shelf offering? There are a lot of possibilities, but I think the point is, that all these ideas batted around really don't reflect any opinion about the share price, jsut a hedging mechanism which means nothing regarding a bet on the future share price......Take the Sprint investment in AOL as an example..That was a hedge whiched cap their gain at 20% of where it is today, but it served the purpose sprint was looking for