From: Alan Alford
Sent: December 16, 2006
To: rule-comments@sec.gov
Subject: File No. 4-519

Gentlefolk: The interests of the general public would be greatly served by your adoption of this rule so as to expose and prevent unlawful and deceptive activities by securities promoters and their sponsors. Add my name to the list of consumers who strongly support its enactment.

Alan Alford
Sudbury, MA