Date:    03/22/2000  9:44 AM

Subject: Proposed Regulation FD

I would like to voice my support for the proposed regulation banning 
selective disclosure.  Though I am a new investor, it is apparent that the 
investing world has radically changed over the past few years.  During this 
period, an increasingly larger number of individuals have begun to manage 
their own financial future, making their own decisions on what equities to 
invest in.  This has primarily been made possible by the advent of the 
internet.  I am confident that I would not be as heavily vested as I am if 
not for the amount and quality of information readily available to me.  My 
financial future, and the financial future of millions of other individual 
investors depends on the continued availability of that information. 
Selective disclosure limits the quality of this information and threatens 
the existence of what is available.  This regulation would further improve 
and preserve the information available to all investors, not just the select 
few with the right connections.
     
Thank you.
     
     
Alex Lecouras
IIT Research Institute
185 Admiral Cochran Dr.