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To: gdichaz who wrote (494)	10/28/1999 3:16:00 PM
From: StockHawk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1817

SFE and CMGI - I am a big fan of SFE and I participated in the IPOs of their progenies ICGE and USIT and am in on Pac West, which is in the process of IPOing. Their directed share program is great and I know it has been mentioned here and on the GG thread, but I have not seen much mention of CMGI's program. For the small investor CMGI's plan is perhaps better than than SFE's. For example, an investor who owned 100 shares of SFE would have been entitled to 10 IPO shares of ICGE and Pac West and 5 shares of USIT. However, the owner of 100 shares of CMGI could have received 100 shares of just-IPOed NAVI. Or they could have gotten nothing - there is a lottery element to the program. The big difference is that if, for example, you owned five times as many SFE shares you would get five times as much stock in the IPOs, but no matter how much CMGI you have you will only get 100 IPO shares. Since an IPO of Alta Vista may come up soon, it may be prudent to consider adding 100 shares of CMGI to ones Godzilla portfolio. StockHawk