Date:    12/17/1999  11:11 AM
Subject: Proposed Regulation FD

Thank you, thank you.
     
Please make sure the new rules are put into action.  It's long past time 
to allow all investors to get the same level of information for making 
investment decisions.
     
Several times in recent years I have received bad advice from brokers 
because they wanted to maintain their selective relationship with 
companies.  I know bad decisions and wrong choices are part of the 
investment equation.  But it's time to allow the investors know what is 
really happening without the "spin" supplied by brokerage houses.
     
If I make a bad choice, that's my problem.  If I make it because I 
listened to a broker who was trying to stay in the good graces of the 
CFO of the company, then I have been cheated.
     
Sincerely,
Bryan Johnston