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To: tang who wrote (19359)	5/31/1999 9:53:00 AM
From: Tom Tallant	Respond to of 41369

Tang, 1)In a nutshell yes. All a self registration does is eliminate the requirement to register new issues each time a company wishes to offer them. ie. XYZ corporation may do a self registration of 100,000 shares even though they do not intend to offer that many all at once. 2)Insider selling is the sale of already issued shares while a shelf registration is the issue of additional shares for sale, typically used to raise capital or service a debt. IMHO...it is interesting that AOL has done this shelf registration as they are not strapped for working capital. I assume they are in the process of raising capital for a specific purpose such as an acquisition, an expansion or both. It will be interesting to see how this pans out. I for one, would be interested to hear from the thread as to what the possible scenerios may be. Regards, Tom