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From: newsstats@seismo.UUCP
Newsgroups: mod.newslists
Subject: Top 25 News Groups for the last 2 weeks
Message-ID: <2030@seismo.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 22-Apr-85 07:07:46 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 22 07:07:46 1985
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Organization: Center for Seismic Studies, Arlington, VA
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         No. of        $ Cost  % of  Cumulative
Rank  Kbytes Articles per Site Total  % of Total  Group (Articles/contributor)
   1   786.1      35     24.57  9.5%     9.5%     net.sources.games (1.8)
   2   767.1      34     23.97  9.2%    18.7%     net.sources.mac (2.3)
   3   554.9     174     17.34  6.7%    25.4%     net.religion (3.3)
   4   496.7     161     15.52  6.0%    31.3%     net.origins (4.5)
   5   488.0      61     15.25  5.9%    37.2%     net.sources (1.7)
   6   400.9     250     12.53  4.8%    42.0%     net.politics (2.5)
   7   342.3     311     10.70  4.1%    46.2%     net.flame (1.9)
   8   246.4      91      7.70  3.0%    49.1%     net.religion.christian (2.9)
   9   203.0     254      6.34  2.4%    51.6%     net.music (2.3)
  10   187.6     220      5.86  2.3%    53.8%     net.auto (1.9)
  11   178.5     170      5.58  2.1%    56.0%     net.singles (1.8)
  12   178.4     184      5.58  2.1%    58.1%     net.jokes (1.5)
  13   162.6     139      5.08  2.0%    60.1%     net.movies (1.5)
  14   144.8     115      4.52  1.7%    61.8%     net.audio (1.8)
  15   140.6      38      4.39  1.7%    63.5%     net.games.frp (1.5)
  16   138.8      92      4.34  1.7%    65.2%     net.philosophy (2.7)
  17   128.5     119      4.02  1.5%    66.7%     net.micro.mac (1.7)
  18   127.7     116      3.99  1.5%    68.3%     net.startrek (1.7)
  19   125.3      60      3.92  1.5%    69.8%     net.abortion (2.2)
  20   123.4     200      3.86  1.5%    71.3%     net.sf-lovers (2.9)
  21   121.4      75      3.79  1.5%    72.7%     net.music.gdead (2.7)
  22   113.2     165      3.54  1.4%    74.1%     net.unix-wizards (1.8)
  23   113.1      39      3.54  1.4%    75.5%     net.religion.jewish (1.6)
  24   108.8     158      3.40  1.3%    76.8%     net.micro (2.7)
  25   106.7      98      3.33  1.3%    78.0%     net.women (1.4)

$ 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.