From: tlavin [tlavin@soems.com]
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 10:39 PM
To: rule-comments@sec.gov
Subject: File No. S7-24-99

Short sale figures MUST be made public as soon as available.  The 45 day lag
between public knowledge of short interest and the knowledge held by
"insiders"  is a discriminatory practice.  In  this electronic age, it would
be quite easy to obtain 95% accurate information of short interest in a
stock very rapidly.

Please make sure that this time lag vanishes to whatever length of time is
easil managable, for example 2 days.

Thomas lavin