From: Schoenbeck, Mark [mschoenbeck@mutualservice.com] Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 8:47 AM To: 'rule-comments@sec.gov' Cc: 'fpa@fpanet.org' Subject: File No. S7-25-99 To whom it may concern: Please accept this email as one more vote to drop the proposed SEC rule "Certain Broker/ Dealers Deemed Not To Be Investment Advisors." As an organization created to help protect individual investors, I am finding it hard to believe that the SEC has even considered this rule for as long as you have. It makes me feel very suspect of your independence and objectivity. How many large wire house firms are paying serious money (that they have made off the individual clients they are supposed to serve) to lobby the lawmakers in Washington? Please show us via your actions that you truly do want to support and protect the individual investor by withdrawing this rule. Cordially, Mark Schoenbeck Mark P. Schoenbeck Vice President Director Advisory Services Mutual Service Corporation (800) 749-8900 ext. 3019 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you believe that you have received this email in error, please contact the sender.