Date:    9/17/98  10:12 AM

Subject: S7-16-97

The SEC should revoke their requiring complaints about companies and 
brokers to be filed privately when received via email and/or the internet; 
where nothing is private!
     
I have forwarded many stock touts and broker solicitations to the SEC that 
we have received in our email box from the internet.  The standard SEC 
email response is frustrating!  Since the promotion was received via public 
and insecure media, I have no problems with the federal government 
conducting an investigation about a complaint received via the internet as 
long as the person filing the complaint maintains the original email or 
keeps an archive of the email.
     
Thank you (and I hope that the SEC loosens up a bit) 
Ralph Hightower
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Ralph or Paula Hightower
Chapin, SC