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Subject: Top 25 News Groups for the last 2 weeks
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Date: 22 Oct 89 22:30:06 GMT
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         No. of        $ Cost  % of  Cumulative
Rank  Kbytes Articles per Site Total  % of Total  Group (Articles/contributor)
   1  2754.4     143      6.89  3.4%     3.4%     comp.mail.maps (1.0)
   2  1645.0    1150      4.11  2.1%     5.5%     rec.arts.startrek (3.3)
   3  1640.6      64      4.10  2.0%     7.5%     alt.sources (7.1)
   4  1252.2     549      3.13  1.6%     9.1%     soc.culture.china (2.4)
   5  1227.1     727      3.07  1.5%    10.6%     soc.culture.taiwan (6.5)
   6  1226.0     502      3.06  1.5%    12.2%     talk.politics.misc (2.7)
   7  1100.9     778      2.75  1.4%    13.5%     rec.arts.comics (3.6)
   8  1067.2      34      2.67  1.3%    14.9%     comp.binaries.mac (1.0)
   9  1036.7     556      2.59  1.3%    16.2%     talk.religion.misc (4.1)
  10  1002.5     884      2.51  1.3%    17.4%     comp.sys.mac (1.9)
  11   950.3     812      2.38  1.2%    18.6%     comp.sys.amiga (2.1)
  12   928.4      22      2.32  1.2%    19.8%     comp.sources.unix (1.0)
  13   916.2     658      2.29  1.1%    20.9%     soc.singles (2.9)
  14   848.0     608      2.12  1.1%    22.0%     rec.humor (1.7)
  15   843.6     743      2.11  1.1%    23.0%     comp.sys.ibm.pc (1.5)
  16   831.2     456      2.08  1.0%    24.1%     news.groups (2.3)
  17   807.0     290      2.02  1.0%    25.1%     misc.headlines (1.8)
  18   800.2      22      2.00  1.0%    26.1%     comp.binaries.atari.st (1.0)
  19   771.7     694      1.93  1.0%    27.0%     alt.flame (7.0)
  20   757.5     519      1.89  0.9%    28.0%     comp.lang.c (2.4)
  21   749.2     437      1.87  0.9%    28.9%     sci.space (2.6)
  22   749.2     380      1.87  0.9%    29.9%     talk.politics.mideast (4.3)
  23   738.3     349      1.85  0.9%    30.8%     talk.abortion (4.4)
  24   736.7     578      1.84  0.9%    31.7%     rec.sport.football (2.3)
  25   706.4     633      1.77  0.9%    32.6%     rec.arts.movies (2.2)

$ Cost is the cost of sending it over a Trailblazer to UUNET, using the 
800 number and Night rates. (1000 characters per second and $9 per hour)
I.e .25 cents per kilobyte