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Subject: Top 25 News Groups for the last 2 weeks
Message-ID: <169@seismo.CSS.GOV>
Date: Thu, 12-Sep-85 08:55:38 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 12 08:55:38 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   960.9      93     30.03 10.4%    10.4%     net.sources (1.5)
   2   650.9      28     20.34  7.0%    17.4%     net.sources.mac (2.5)
   3   381.3     209     11.92  4.1%    21.5%     net.politics (2.1)
   4   324.3     120     10.13  3.5%    25.0%     net.philosophy (6.7)
   5   306.1     101      9.57  3.3%    28.3%     net.abortion (3.1)
   6   289.7     225      9.05  3.1%    31.4%     net.women (2.4)
   7   289.3      94      9.04  3.1%    34.5%     net.origins (2.5)
   8   284.4     116      8.89  3.1%    37.6%     net.religion (3.1)
   9   269.3     223      8.41  2.9%    40.5%     net.singles (2.0)
  10   263.8     327      8.24  2.8%    43.3%     net.bizarre (2.1)
  11   247.3     203      7.73  2.7%    46.0%     net.news.group (1.9)
  12   236.6     109      7.39  2.5%    48.5%     net.religion.christian (2.4)
  13   230.2     178      7.19  2.5%    51.0%     net.kids (1.9)
  14   216.2     229      6.76  2.3%    53.3%     net.auto (1.7)
  15   214.5     195      6.70  2.3%    55.6%     net.flame (1.8)
  16   208.9     213      6.53  2.3%    57.9%     net.unix-wizards (1.9)
  17   187.0     219      5.84  2.0%    59.9%     net.sf-lovers (3.2)
  18   171.3      11      5.35  1.8%    61.8%     net.sources.games (1.4)
  19   165.4      74      5.17  1.8%    63.5%     net.politics.theory (4.1)
  20   162.3     168      5.07  1.7%    65.3%     net.music (2.4)
  21   159.5     143      4.99  1.7%    67.0%     net.micro.pc (1.5)
  22   155.2     140      4.85  1.7%    68.7%     net.legal (1.7)
  23   152.4     225      4.76  1.6%    70.3%     net.micro (3.6)
  24   150.0      84      4.69  1.6%    71.9%     net.religion.jewish (2.2)
  25   144.5     121      4.51  1.6%    73.5%     net.audio (1.9)

$ 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.