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Subject: Top 25 News Groups for the last 2 weeks
Message-ID: <2834@seismo.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 22-Jul-85 07:28:07 EDT
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         No. of        $ Cost  % of  Cumulative
Rank  Kbytes Articles per Site Total  % of Total  Group (Articles/contributor)
   1  1012.3      50     31.63 10.9%    10.9%     net.sources.mac (1.9)
   2   479.3     397     14.98  5.2%    16.1%     net.singles (2.7)
   3   446.3      65     13.95  4.8%    20.9%     net.sources (1.5)
   4   408.3     287     12.76  4.4%    25.3%     net.women (2.4)
   5   320.6     134     10.02  3.5%    28.7%     net.origins (3.4)
   6   293.0     217      9.16  3.2%    31.9%     net.politics (2.3)
   7   273.0     303      8.53  2.9%    34.8%     net.music (2.8)
   8   259.1     442      8.10  2.8%    37.6%     net.sf-lovers (3.7)
   9   249.2      19      7.79  2.7%    40.3%     net.sources.games (1.7)
  10   248.1     247      7.75  2.7%    42.9%     net.movies (2.0)
  11   231.3     239      7.23  2.5%    45.4%     net.flame (1.8)
  12   204.8     120      6.40  2.2%    47.6%     net.unix (2.1)
  13   197.0      89      6.16  2.1%    49.8%     net.religion.christian (2.8)
  14   188.0     241      5.88  2.0%    51.8%     net.lang.c (2.1)
  15   174.7     179      5.46  1.9%    53.7%     net.micro.pc (1.5)
  16   174.1      52      5.44  1.9%    55.5%     net.religion (2.3)
  17   173.7      67      5.43  1.9%    57.4%     net.philosophy (2.7)
  18   160.1     211      5.00  1.7%    59.1%     net.unix-wizards (1.7)
  19   156.5     272      4.89  1.7%    60.8%     net.jokes (1.6)
  20   154.8     146      4.84  1.7%    62.5%     net.micro.mac (1.5)
  21   146.0      74      4.56  1.6%    64.1%     net.politics.theory (3.5)
  22   141.1     169      4.41  1.5%    65.6%     net.physics (3.1)
  23   138.9     174      4.34  1.5%    67.1%     net.micro (2.5)
  24   128.8     100      4.02  1.4%    68.5%     net.news (2.2)
  25   121.5     161      3.80  1.3%    69.8%     net.consumers (1.5)

$ 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.