From: CT Carbs [mailto:ctcarbs@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 10:49 AM
To: pubcom@nasd.com; help@sec.gov
Subject: (s7-23-03) proposed new member rule for short selling

How dare you guys try to make it even harder to short stocks! Shame on you for trying to make a one sided market. Don't you understand you are setting up a free pass for scammers without any checks and balances? If you want to do something as radical as STOPPING shorting you NEED to set up a way to borrow these stocks so the market is NOT one sided (MANIPULATED), capiche? If you have ANY doubts please see the history of the hengseng when they stopped shorting.

Concerned Investor