Date:    05/10/2000  3:45 PM

Subject: Proposed Regulation FD: File No. S7-31-99

Big businesses and people with a lot more wealth than I have get special 
privileges when investing in IPOs, and I can understand why, but selective 
disclosure is something is really difficult for me to understand. Having 
attended several stockholder meetings as a member of a women's investment 
club, it made all the difference for me to hear the CEO talking to analysts 
(and me) about strategies, or the CFO going through the company's financial 
model.  I got to hear it exactly like the other people and I made decisions 
based on what I heard.  Now I want to be able to make decisions NOT based on 
what an analyst says -- at worst a different "truth" from what I might have 
heard, and at best is diluted --but based on the company's leaders.  And I 
want to hear the questions the analysts ask, too, so I'll know whether or 
not to listen to them later.
     
Now that I'm working full time, I rarely get to go to stockholders meetings, 
but I have been able to listen online to my own company's conference calls 
with analysts.  The technology is on my desktop and it's a perspective, in 
all fairness, that we should all have access to for any company.
     
Thanks, 
     
Julie 
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Julie Hawkes 
Technical Instructor, Remedy Corporation