Date:    12/16/1999  9:43 AM

Subject: Fair Disclosure

I am an independent security analyst.
     
It is critical that corporate information be  available to the investing public 
as soon as it is available, and that it be disseminated as widely as possible 
and as soon as it is released.
     
The technology that makes this practicable already exists and is widely 
available.  There is no reason why major brokerage house analysts and investment
bankers--already cozy with management---should have any edge on the public in 
having access to what is too often inside information.  Whispered "guidance" to 
favored analysts and firms, where estimates of corporate performance are leaked,
is inexcusable. Your Chairman is right on regarding selective dissemination of 
material information being fundamentally unfair. Open up the press conferences. 
Make them interactive.  Put them on the internet in real time.
     
Stick to your guns on this one.  The markets are corrupt enough as things stand.
In our democracy, it serves the public interest to get the information out there
and let all investors and those who purport to serve them compete openly and 
above board at getting at the truth behind management's too-often self serving 
numbers.  
     
Patrick Sheehan