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Subject: Top 25 News Groups for the last 2 weeks
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Date: Tue, 8-Sep-87 09:40:09 EDT
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         No. of        $ Cost  % of  Cumulative
Rank  Kbytes Articles per Site Total  % of Total  Group (Articles/contributor)
   1  1326.7     785     41.46  5.4%     5.4%     soc.women (3.3)
   2   892.6     712     27.89  3.6%     9.0%     soc.singles (3.4)
   3   839.1     460     26.22  3.4%    12.4%     comp.sys.ibm.pc (1.6)
   4   803.0     399     25.09  3.3%    15.6%     comp.sys.amiga (2.4)
   5   776.5     352     24.26  3.1%    18.8%     talk.politics.misc (3.5)
   6   729.1      16     22.78  3.0%    21.7%     comp.sources.games (1.0)
   7   695.6     476     21.74  2.8%    24.6%     soc.men (2.8)
   8   651.3     223     20.35  2.6%    27.2%     rec.arts.startrek (2.0)
   9   642.8      16     20.09  2.6%    29.8%     comp.doc (16.0)
  10   556.4     379     17.39  2.3%    32.1%     rec.aviation (2.7)
  11   545.5     493     17.05  2.2%    34.3%     comp.sys.mac (1.8)
  12   436.9     160     13.65  1.8%    36.0%     talk.religion.newage (2.3)
  13   430.6     392     13.46  1.7%    37.8%     rec.music.misc (2.1)
  14   421.8     348     13.18  1.7%    39.5%     rec.autos (2.0)
  15   411.3      22     12.85  1.7%    41.2%     comp.binaries.mac (7.3)
  16   397.3     401     12.42  1.6%    42.8%     talk.bizarre (2.4)
  17   396.8     325     12.40  1.6%    44.4%     comp.lang.c (1.8)
  18   387.3     250     12.10  1.6%    45.9%     rec.arts.sf-lovers (1.7)
  19   370.2     186     11.57  1.5%    47.4%     soc.culture.jewish (2.2)
  20   358.1     217     11.19  1.5%    48.9%     rec.arts.comics (3.4)
  21   351.0      10     10.97  1.4%    50.3%     comp.sources.unix (10.0)
  22   342.6     191     10.71  1.4%    51.7%     comp.os.vms (1.3)
  23   334.1     272     10.44  1.4%    53.1%     misc.consumers (1.5)
  24   332.3     259     10.38  1.3%    54.4%     comp.unix.wizards (1.6)
  25   304.0      13      9.50  1.2%    55.6%     comp.sources.misc (1.4)

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