Date:    03/21/2000  9:21 PM

Subject: Proposed Regulation FD

I am an individual investor and I wish to give my support to the SEC efforts 
to require public disclosure of information as opposed to selective 
disclosure. It is my opinion, that the current system of selective 
disclosure is a blatant form of insider trading benefiting the participants. 
It allows them to trade on information made available only to them while the 
rest of the trading community, especially the individual, are left in the 
dark. If this trading were conducted by an officer of the company, it would 
be illegal. Why then is it OK for a group of selected participants to be 
given this "inside" information and be permitted to trade on it before it is 
made public?
     
Richard Mangieri
     
Lucent Technologies, Inc.
Core Automation Technologies group
9333 South John Young Parkway
Orlando, FL 32819