From: Jim Aldendifer [jca555@comcast.net] Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2003 10:08 AM To: rule-comments@sec.gov Subject: Comment re: SR-NASD-2002-168 To whom it may concern, I strongly encourage you to kill the expungement proposal . I cannot understand how anyone could justify a rule to require brokers to publicly disclose UNPROVEN ALLEGATIONS. It is especially unfair to make it more difficult to erase those allegations. Please make sure the rules are equitable and just. Jim Aldendifer