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Subject: Top 25 News Groups for the last 2 weeks
Message-ID: <369@seismo.CSS.GOV>
Date: Tue, 8-Oct-85 13:18:35 EDT
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         No. of        $ Cost  % of  Cumulative
Rank  Kbytes Articles per Site Total  % of Total  Group (Articles/contributor)
   1   515.8     130     16.12  5.7%     5.7%     net.philosophy (5.2)
   2   446.4      74     13.95  4.9%    10.6%     net.sources (1.4)
   3   426.3     245     13.32  4.7%    15.2%     net.politics (2.7)
   4   424.0     194     13.25  4.7%    19.9%     net.religion (2.9)
   5   405.4      55     12.67  4.4%    24.3%     net.sources.mac (3.4)
   6   303.4     179      9.48  3.3%    27.7%     net.micro.pc (1.6)
   7   264.0     174      8.25  2.9%    30.6%     net.women (2.2)
   8   258.2     211      8.07  2.8%    33.4%     net.bizarre (1.8)
   9   255.6     243      7.99  2.8%    36.2%     net.sf-lovers (3.0)
  10   244.7     222      7.65  2.7%    38.9%     net.flame (2.1)
  11   232.6     216      7.27  2.6%    41.4%     net.music (2.3)
  12   215.8     214      6.74  2.4%    43.8%     net.audio (1.8)
  13   207.6      82      6.49  2.3%    46.1%     net.politics.theory (2.7)
  14   191.2      65      5.97  2.1%    48.2%     net.religion.christian (2.1)
  15   191.1     205      5.97  2.1%    50.3%     net.micro (2.9)
  16   177.3      75      5.54  1.9%    52.2%     net.abortion (2.0)
  17   176.4     195      5.51  1.9%    54.2%     net.auto (1.7)
  18   170.7       8      5.33  1.9%    56.0%     mod.newslists (8.0)
  19   169.1     193      5.29  1.9%    57.9%     net.unix-wizards (1.7)
  20   160.4     169      5.01  1.8%    59.6%     net.micro.mac (1.5)
  21   157.0     140      4.91  1.7%    61.4%     net.movies (1.5)
  22   143.0     111      4.47  1.6%    62.9%     net.micro.atari (2.3)
  23   141.7     160      4.43  1.6%    64.5%     net.lang.c (2.1)
  24   136.8     134      4.27  1.5%    66.0%     net.micro.amiga (2.3)
  25   135.6     144      4.24  1.5%    67.5%     net.cooks (1.6)

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presuming $0.15 per minute and 800 baud effective throughput.