It’s nice to know that AOLTW can “comfortably absorb an all-cash deal” worth just over 6.5 billion dollars

Why would anyone bother to post a blatent lie to a list-serv when they *know* that more than 10 people on it know that it is a blatent lie? What’s the point, I mean nevermind in the first place alone but why? It’s just gonna be more hassle if someone chooses to correct it and then it goes off. ah well