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Subject: Top 25 News Groups for the last 2 weeks
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Date: Mon, 8-Jun-87 02:25:13 EDT
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         No. of        $ Cost  % of  Cumulative
Rank  Kbytes Articles per Site Total  % of Total  Group (Articles/contributor)
   1  1353.4     767     42.29  5.8%     5.8%     soc.women (3.4)
   2  1133.1      24     35.41  4.9%    10.7%     comp.mail.maps (24.0)
   3   878.9      36     27.46  3.8%    14.5%     comp.binaries.mac (3.0)
   4   821.5      18     25.67  3.5%    18.1%     comp.sources.games (1.0)
   5   786.5     359     24.58  3.4%    21.5%     comp.sys.amiga (2.4)
   6   645.7     528     20.18  2.8%    24.3%     soc.singles (2.7)
   7   584.9      22     18.28  2.5%    26.8%     comp.sources.misc (3.1)
   8   555.0     311     17.34  2.4%    29.2%     rec.arts.comics (2.4)
   9   525.0     365     16.41  2.3%    31.4%     comp.sys.ibm.pc (1.5)
  10   451.3     191     14.10  1.9%    33.4%     comp.sys.atari.st (1.6)
  11   418.0     229     13.06  1.8%    35.2%     talk.politics.misc (2.3)
  12   411.8     344     12.87  1.8%    37.0%     rec.music.misc (1.9)
  13   397.0     305     12.41  1.7%    38.7%     rec.arts.sf-lovers (1.5)
  14   377.1     241     11.78  1.6%    40.3%     misc.misc (1.9)
  15   356.7     313     11.15  1.5%    41.9%     comp.sys.mac (1.6)
  16   342.1     233     10.69  1.5%    43.3%     soc.misc (1.7)
  17   317.6     441      9.93  1.4%    44.7%     rec.humor (1.7)
  18   314.2     104      9.82  1.4%    46.1%     talk.religion.misc (1.7)
  19   303.5     204      9.49  1.3%    47.4%     rec.arts.movies (1.5)
  20   289.6     163      9.05  1.3%    48.6%     sci.med (1.7)
  21   289.1     190      9.03  1.2%    49.9%     sci.lang (1.7)
  22   273.6     188      8.55  1.2%    51.0%     misc.headlines (1.9)
  23   258.5     196      8.08  1.1%    52.2%     comp.unix.wizards (1.4)
  24   257.8     236      8.06  1.1%    53.3%     misc.consumers (1.3)
  25   257.0      10      8.03  1.1%    54.4%     comp.sys.mac.digest (1.0)

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