Date:    03/29/2000  2:40 PM

Memo Re: SEC rule on disclosure
     
This e-mail is to add my support to National Federation of Press Women 
President Vivien Sadowski's position in favor of continued press 
announcements on insider trading disclosures.
As a working news reporter and chair of NFPW's First Amendment Committee, I 
feel it is very important to keep vital information such as this as openly 
and widely disseminated as possible. Company websites should post the 
information but other avenues continued such as press releases, and 
distribution to mainstream wire services, such as the Associated Press, and 
perhaps through legal notices.
Information such as that which with you are dealing is very important to 
citizens in making  decisions that effect their very livelihood and future 
financial well-being. It is not too much to ask to require widespread 
distribution of such.
Thank you for your attention to this very important First Amendment issue. 

Marsha Shuler,
president, Louisiana Press Women
chair, NFPW First Amendment.