LIMITED POWER OF ATTORNEY FOR
SECTION 16 REPORTING OBLIGATIONS




	Know all by these presents, that the undersigned's hereby makes,

constitutes and appoints Gene S. Godick, Christopher G. Kuhn and James W.

McKenzie, Jr., signing individually, as the undersigned's true and lawful

attorney-in-fact, with full power and authority as hereinafter described
on
behalf of and in the name, place and stead of the undersigned to:



(1)	prepare, execute, acknowledge, deliver and file Forms 3, 4, and 5

(including any amendments thereto) with respect to the securities of

Verticalnet, Inc., a Pennsylvania corporation (the "Company"), with the

United States Securities and Exchange Commission, any national securities

exchanges and the Company, as considered necessary or advisable under

Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules and

regulations promulgated thereunder, as amended from time to time (the

"Exchange Act");

(2)	seek or obtain, as the undersigned's

representative and on the undersigned's behalf, information on
transactions
in the Company's securities from any third party, including
brokers,
employee benefit plan administrators and trustees, and the
undersigned
hereby authorizes any such person to release any such
information to the
undersigned and approves and ratifies any such release
of information; and


(3)	perform any and all other acts which in
the discretion of such
attorney-in-fact are necessary or desirable for
and on behalf of the
undersigned in connection with the foregoing.


The undersigned
acknowledges that:

(1)	this Power of Attorney
authorizes, but does not
require, such attorney-in-fact to act in their
discretion on information
provided to such attorney-in-fact without
independent verification of such
information;

(2)	any documents
prepared and/or executed by such
attorney-in-fact on behalf of the
undersigned pursuant to this Power of
Attorney will be in such form and
will contain such information and
disclosure as such attorney-in-fact, in
his or her discretion, deems
necessary or desirable;

(3)	neither
the Company nor such
attorney-in-fact assumes (i) any liability for the
undersigned's
responsibility to comply with the requirement of the
Exchange Act, (ii) any
liability of the undersigned for any failure to
comply with such
requirements, or (iii) any obligation or liability of
the undersigned for
profit disgorgement under Section 16(b) of the
Exchange Act; and


(4)	this Power of Attorney does not relieve the
undersigned from
responsibility for compliance with the undersigned's
obligations under the
Exchange Act, including without limitation the
reporting requirements under
Section 16 of the Exchange Act.

	The
undersigned hereby gives and
grants the foregoing attorney-in-fact full
power and authority to do and
perform all and every act and thing
whatsoever requisite, necessary or
appropriate to be done in and about
the foregoing matters as fully to all
intents and purposes as the
undersigned might or could do if present,
hereby ratifying all that such
attorney-in-fact of, for and on behalf of
the undersigned, shall lawfully
do or cause to be done by virtue of this
Limited Power of Attorney.


	This Power of Attorney shall remain in
full force and effect until
revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing
delivered to such
attorney-in-fact.

	IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the
undersigned has caused
this Power of Attorney to be executed as of this
18th day of August,
2003.





									   /s/
Gregory G. Schott

						Signature




Gregory G. Schott

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