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Subject: Top 25 News Groups for the last 2 weeks
Message-ID: <508@seismo.CSS.GOV>
Date: Tue, 22-Oct-85 19:29:56 EDT
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         No. of        $ Cost  % of  Cumulative
Rank  Kbytes Articles per Site Total  % of Total  Group (Articles/contributor)
   1   877.6      61     27.42  9.0%     9.0%     net.sources.mac (2.8)
   2   613.7      99     19.18  6.3%    15.3%     net.sources (1.7)
   3   460.4     269     14.39  4.7%    20.1%     net.politics (2.6)
   4   354.1     251     11.07  3.6%    23.7%     net.micro.mac (1.8)
   5   318.3     225      9.95  3.3%    27.0%     net.flame (1.9)
   6   283.1      87      8.85  2.9%    29.9%     net.philosophy (4.3)
   7   272.8     245      8.52  2.8%    32.7%     net.movies (2.0)
   8   268.5     275      8.39  2.8%    35.5%     net.music (2.9)
   9   265.6      83      8.30  2.7%    38.2%     net.politics.theory (3.0)
  10   227.4      10      7.11  2.3%    40.5%     net.sources.games (2.0)
  11   224.9     273      7.03  2.3%    42.8%     net.sf-lovers (2.7)
  12   220.9     192      6.90  2.3%    45.1%     net.women (2.4)
  13   219.2     178      6.85  2.3%    47.4%     net.micro.atari (2.3)
  14   219.0     131      6.84  2.3%    49.6%     net.religion (3.0)
  15   216.5     201      6.77  2.2%    51.8%     net.audio (1.9)
  16   213.5      60      6.67  2.2%    54.0%     net.origins (2.0)
  17   208.2     263      6.51  2.1%    56.2%     net.unix-wizards (2.2)
  18   197.3      70      6.17  2.0%    58.2%     net.abortion (2.2)
  19   177.8     157      5.56  1.8%    60.0%     net.micro.pc (1.6)
  20   175.0     156      5.47  1.8%    61.8%     net.lang.c (2.1)
  21   168.8     196      5.27  1.7%    63.6%     net.micro (3.3)
  22   150.8      78      4.71  1.6%    65.1%     net.religion.christian (2.4)
  23   141.5     120      4.42  1.5%    66.6%     net.singles (1.7)
  24   139.2     145      4.35  1.4%    68.0%     net.cooks (1.5)
  25   135.0     164      4.22  1.4%    69.4%     net.unix (2.1)

$ 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.