Author:  Cory Johnson 
Date:    01/25/2000  6:22 PM

Subject: Thanks for your email! (was Re: Selective Disclosure and
	I

                                                                                
        At 05:49 AM 01/24/2000 -0800, Robert Hahl wrote:
     
>Dear SEC,
>
>I support the proposed rule agains selective disclosure of material 
>information. This chart from theStreet.com illustrates the problem. 
>
>
>priceline.com's stock jumped 13% after a presentation at a 
>professionals-only conference.
>37b332.jpg
>
>If that's not material information, what is? Wall Street insiders had 
>special knowledge and were buying the stock from regular investors who did 
>not have that knowledge.
>
>The full article by Cory Johnson is at 
><http://www.thestreet.com/comment/siliconbabylon/866736.html>http://www.the 
>street.com/comment/siliconbabylon/866736.html
>
>
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Robert W. Hahl
>
>(No affiliation with theStreet.com or any public company.)
Thanks for your kind note. I'm glad the SEC is finally taking some steps to 
help this. Something is changing in investing, the little guy EXPECTS to be 
heard and I think that might be the biggest change of all.
     
DLJ, of course, wants me dead now.
     
BTW, we'd love to run your email in our Email To The Editors section? We 
need to use your full name in order to do so. Let me know if I can submit 
it to our Letters Editor.
     
Sincerely,
Cory Johnson
     
P.S. Some of my regular readers have complained about missing my stories. 
So I'm going to start sending an email to alert them to my latest posts. 
Can I put you on the list?