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|1.Name and Address of Reporting Person* |2.Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol |6.Relationship of Reporting Person to |
| | | Issuer (Check all Applicable) |
| Compaq Computer Corporation | CMGI, INC ("CMGI") | |
| | | Director X 10% Owner |
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| (Last) (First) (MI)|3.IRS or Soc. Sec. No. |4.Statement for Month/ | Officer Other |
| | of Reporting Person | Year |---(give title below) ---(Specify below)|
| 20555 State Highway 249 | (Voluntary) | October 1999 | |
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|----------------------------------------| |------------------------|7. Individual or Joint/Group Filing |
| (Street) | |5.If Amendment, Date of | (Check Applicable Line) |
| | | Original (Month/Year) | |
| | | | Form filed by One Reporting Person |
| Houston TX 77070 | | |--- |
| | | | X Form filed by More than One |
| | | |--- Reporting Person |
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| TABLE I - Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned |
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|1.Title of Security |2.Transac- |3.Transac-|4.Security Acquired (A) or |5.Amount of |6.Owner-|7.Nature of |
| (Instr. 3) | tion Date |tion Code | Disposed of (D) | Securities |Ship Fo-| Indirect |
| |(Month/Day/ |(Instr.8) | (Instr. 3, 4 and 5) | Beneficially |rm: Dir-| Beneficial |
| | Year) |----------|-----------------------------| Owned at End of|ect (D) | Ownership |
| | | | | | | | Month (Instr. |or Indi-| (Instr. 4) |
| | | | | | | | 3 and 4) |rect (I)| |
| | | | | |(A) | | |(Instr. | |
| | |Code| V | Amount |(D) | Price | |4) | |
|-------------------------------|------------|----|-----|--------------|----|---------|-----------------|--------|-----------------|
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|-------------------------------|------------|----|-----|--------------|----|---------|-----------------|--------|-----------------|
| Common Stock | 10/28/99 |J(1)| | 1,809,045 | A | (1) | 20,804,020 | I(2) | (2) |
|-------------------------------|------------|----|-----|--------------|----|---------|-----------------|--------|-----------------|
| Preferred Stock | 10/28/99 |J(1)| | 1,8090.45 | D | (1) | 0 | | |
|-------------------------------|------------|----|-----|--------------|----|---------|-----------------|--------|-----------------|
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Reminder: Report on a separate line for each class securities owned directly or indirectly. (Over)
*If the form is filed by more than one reporting person, see Instruction 4(b)(v). SEC 1474 (3-99)
**The reporting person disclaims beneficial ownership of the reported securities.
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FORM 4 (continued) TABLE II - Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, Beneficially Owned
(e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible security)
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|1.Title of|2.Conver-|3. |4.Tran- |5.Number of |6.Date |7.Title and Amount |8.Price of|9.Number |10. |11.Nature |
|Derivative|sion or |Tran-| saction| Derivative |Exercisable| of Underlying |Derivative| of |Ownersh-| of |
|Security |Exercise |sact-| Code | Securities |and | Securities |Security |Derivative|ip Form |Indirect |
|(Instr. 3)|Price of |ion |(Instr.8)| Acquired (A) or |Expiration | (Instr. 3 and 4) |(Instr. 5)|Securities|of Deri-|Beneficial|
| |Deriva- |Date(| | Disposed of (D) |Date | | |Benefi- |vative |Ownership |
| |tive |Month| | (Instr. 3, 4 an |(Month/Day/| | |cially |Security|(Instr. 4)|
| |Security |/Day/| | and 5) | Year) | | |Owned at |: Direct| |
| | |Year)| | |-----------|-------------------| |End of |(D) or | |
| | | | | | | | |Amount or| |Month |Indirect| |
| | | |---------|-------------------|Date |Exp. | Title |Number of| |(Instr. 4)|(I) (In-| |
| | | |Code| V | (A) | (D) |Exbl.|Date | |Shares | | |str. 4) | |
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Explanation of Responses:
(1) Digital Equipment Corporation ("Digital")(a wholly-owned subsidiary of Compaq Computer Corporation) directly owns all of the
CMGI Common and Preferred Stock referred to in this report. Following a duly convened CMGI special stockholder meeting on October
28, 1999, in which a majority of the votes cast were voted in favor of converting the CMGI Series D Preferred Stock into CMGI
Common Stock ,$.01 par value per share, the 18,090.45 shares of CMGI Series D Preferred Stock owned by Digital
were converted into 1,809,045 shares of CMGI Common Stock.
(2) Digital owns 20,804,020 shares of CMGI Common Stock directly. Compaq Computer Corporation owns those shares indirectly
by virtue of the fact that it is the sole stockholder of Digital.
Compaq Computer Corporation
*** Intentional misstatements or omissions of facts constitute /s/ Linda Auwers 11/05/1999
Federal Criminal Violations. See 18 U.S.C. 1001 and ----------------------------------------- ----------
Vice President, Associate General Counsel
& Secretary
15 U.S.C. 78ff(a). ***Signature of Reporting Person Date
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SEC 1474 (3-99)
JOINT FILER INFORMATION
Name: Digital Equipment Corporation
I.R.S. Identification Number: 04-2226590
Address: 20555 State Highway 249
Houston, TX 77070
Designated Filer: Compaq Computer Corporation
Issuer and Ticker Symbol: CMGI, Inc. ("CMGI")
Statement for Month/Year: October 1999
DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION
By: /s/ Linda S. Auwers 11/05/99
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Linda S. Auwers Date
Vice President, Assistant
Secretary/Assistant Clerk