Date:    01/24/2000  5:49 AM

Subject: Selective Disclosure and Insider Trading

Dear SEC,
     
I support the proposed rule agains selective disclosure of material information.
This chart from theStreet.com illustrates the problem.
     
     
            priceline.com's stock jumped 13% after a presentation at a
professionals-only conference. 
     
     
     
     
If that's not material information, what is? Wall Street insiders had special 
knowledge and were buying the stock from regular investors who did not have that
knowledge.  
     
The full article by Cory Johnson is at 
http://www.thestreet.com/comment/siliconbabylon/866736.html
     
     
     
Sincerely,
     
Robert W. Hahl  
     
(No affiliation with theStreet.com or any public company.)