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Subject: Top 25 News Groups for the last 2 weeks
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Date: Fri, 22-Feb-85 04:17:54 EST
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         No. of        $ Cost  % of  Cumulative
Rank  Kbytes Articles per Site Total  % of Total  Group (Articles/contributor)
   1   752.1      73     23.50  9.0%     9.0%     net.sources (1.6)
   2   543.9     321     17.00  6.5%    15.5%     net.politics (3.1)
   3   377.5     202     11.80  4.5%    20.1%     net.politics.theory (4.5)
   4   372.2     257     11.63  4.5%    24.5%     net.flame (1.8)
   5   354.5     178     11.08  4.3%    28.8%     net.religion (2.9)
   6   301.9      29      9.44  3.6%    32.4%     net.sources.mac (2.2)
   7   222.7     118      6.96  2.7%    35.1%     net.religion.christian (2.9)
   8   218.5     309      6.83  2.6%    37.7%     net.jokes (1.6)
   9   193.6     350      6.05  2.3%    40.0%     net.sf-lovers (2.8)
  10   184.8     133      5.78  2.2%    42.2%     net.religion.jewish (2.8)
  11   178.5     235      5.58  2.1%    44.4%     net.lang.c (2.5)
  12   166.9     143      5.22  2.0%    46.4%     net.singles (1.6)
  13   163.6      43      5.11  2.0%    48.3%     net.origins (1.8)
  14   152.3     152      4.76  1.8%    50.2%     net.movies (1.7)
  15   151.7     159      4.74  1.8%    52.0%     net.auto (1.7)
  16   151.3     212      4.73  1.8%    53.8%     net.unix-wizards (1.9)
  17   148.2     115      4.63  1.8%    55.6%     net.women (1.7)
  18   141.6     208      4.42  1.7%    57.3%     net.music (2.3)
  19   125.4     146      3.92  1.5%    58.8%     net.micro (2.2)
  20   117.3     140      3.67  1.4%    60.2%     net.audio (1.8)
  21   106.8      95      3.34  1.3%    61.5%     net.micro.mac (1.6)
  22   104.8      76      3.27  1.3%    62.7%     net.abortion (1.8)
  23   103.6      81      3.24  1.2%    64.0%     net.nlang.india (1.9)
  24   100.0     116      3.13  1.2%    65.2%     net.unix (1.9)
  25    98.6      29      3.08  1.2%    66.4%     net.philosophy (1.3)

$ Cost is the cost of sending it over a 1200 baud, long distance, phone link
presuming $0.15 per minute and 800 baud effective throughput.