Date:    12/22/1999  12:36 PM


Subject: File no. S7-24-99
I am sending this email to voice my support for the following issues:
     
1) We the Individual Investing public, want to have the shorting Rules that 
currently cover the Main Exchanges (the NASDAQ, NYSE, and the AMEX), Extended 
to the stocks and companies that trade on the OTCBB.
     
and
     
2) We the Individual Investing Public, want to make sure that the Uptick rule 
is KEPT IN PLACE for our protection so as to avoid 'bear raids' and 'pile on' 
attacks by the shorts that would most assuredly occur, if this current 
protection is removed.
     
     
As an owner of a OTCBB stock, numerous Nasdaq stocks and a few NYSE stocks, I 
have a strong vested interest in keeping all stocks on a level playing
field.  I have seen myself the effects the market makers can have on nasdaq 
issues.  I have luckily been spared the abuse of naked shorters on my OTCBB 
stock, but that could change at any moment.  Please help protect the american 
public, and eliminate these sources of fraud.
     
Linda Lynch
Pleasant Prairie, WI