Date:    03/22/2000  12:51 PM

Subject: Proposed Regulation FD

I am writing to support the SEC proposal to allow open access to all 
companies' briefings.  Since these are publicly owned companies, the 
public, and especially the public who are small investors in the companies, 
have a right to know the same information as the institutional investors 
who now are invited to private briefings.  It really isn't fair that only 
large, institutional investors receive the inside information, while the 
smaller owners are left uninformed.  It creates an atmosphere of 
favoritism, and that can lead to analysts becoming reluctant to share less 
than positive information with the public.  After all, how often does an 
analyst make a sell recommendation?
     
I hope the SEC approves new regulations that require companies to open all 
briefings to all investors and the media.
     
Martha Christine Burton
7761 Shermont Road
Dublin, OH  43016