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From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: More stats as of Nov. 10, 1985
Message-ID: <2182@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 11-Nov-85 01:23:04 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 11 01:23:04 1985
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Here are the average article sizes and top 25 groups minus top 25 users for
Nov. 10:

     Orig. Avg. Art. New      %
Rank Rank    Size   Kbytes   Chg.   Group 
  1    1      1.4    563.8    4.1%  net.news.group
  2    2      1.7    319.3   23.0%  net.politics
  3    6      1.5    308.4    7.5%  net.flame
  4   10      1.5    244.0    3.7%  net.news
  5   13      1.0    234.0    0.0%  net.movies
  6   14      1.3    233.6    0.0%  net.women
  7    9      1.3    224.9   20.5%  net.micro.mac
  8    7      2.4    208.8   32.7%  net.religion
  9    3      4.0    208.7   46.7%  net.sources
 10    4      1.1    197.1   48.1%  net.music
 11    5      2.3    189.8   50.1%  net.philosophy
 12   12      2.0    188.0   21.1%  net.religion.christian
 13   17      0.6    185.8    0.0%  net.sf-lovers
 14   19      1.1    181.9    0.0%  net.audio
 15   20      0.8    174.9    1.9%  net.unix-wizards
 16   15      2.8    158.3   28.8%  net.politics.theory
 17   23      0.8    151.0    0.0%  net.cooks
 18   21      1.0    150.5   10.4%  net.lang.c
 19   25      0.6    142.2    2.2%  net.jokes
 20   11      3.4    141.1   44.1%  net.origins
 21   22      0.8    139.9    8.8%  net.unix
 22   16      1.1    138.6   27.9%  net.micro.amiga
 23   24      1.2    136.0    7.2%  net.arch
 24   18      1.5     89.3   51.2%  net.micro.pc
 25    8      8.9     55.0   81.8%  net.sources.mac

Again, note the number of large drops.

For comparison, Rich Rosen (the top user) would have been 3rd on this list.

Charley Wingate