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Subject: Top 25 News Groups for the last 2 weeks
Message-ID: <892@seismo.CSS.GOV>
Date: Fri, 22-Nov-85 18:14:18 EST
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         No. of        $ Cost  % of  Cumulative
Rank  Kbytes Articles per Site Total  % of Total  Group (Articles/contributor)
   1   472.7     265     14.77  4.8%     4.8%     net.politics (2.7)
   2   435.7     163     13.62  4.4%     9.2%     net.philosophy (3.9)
   3   433.1      70     13.53  4.4%    13.6%     net.sources (1.5)
   4   404.0     355     12.63  4.1%    17.6%     net.music (3.2)
   5   376.1     227     11.75  3.8%    21.4%     net.micro.mac (1.8)
   6   370.0     152     11.56  3.7%    25.2%     net.religion (4.6)
   7   364.0     154     11.38  3.7%    28.8%     net.religion.christian (3.0)
   8   351.8      32     11.00  3.6%    32.4%     net.sources.mac (2.0)
   9   328.2     305     10.26  3.3%    35.7%     net.news.group (1.8)
  10   243.4      74      7.61  2.5%    38.2%     net.origins (2.4)
  11   205.7     173      6.43  2.1%    40.3%     net.micro.amiga (2.5)
  12   200.9     143      6.28  2.0%    42.3%     net.singles (2.0)
  13   196.2     141      6.13  2.0%    44.3%     net.micro.pc (1.6)
  14   183.6      14      5.74  1.9%    46.1%     mod.newslists (14.0)
  15   174.8      99      5.46  1.8%    47.9%     net.physics (2.3)
  16   167.5     184      5.24  1.7%    49.6%     net.audio (2.1)
  17   160.8     205      5.02  1.6%    51.2%     net.sf-lovers (2.5)
  18   159.8     117      4.99  1.6%    52.8%     net.news (4.2)
  19   158.6     166      4.96  1.6%    54.4%     net.lang.c (2.2)
  20   155.4     198      4.86  1.6%    56.0%     net.unix-wizards (2.0)
  21   151.7     171      4.74  1.5%    57.5%     net.micro (2.7)
  22   145.8      68      4.56  1.5%    59.0%     net.abortion (2.5)
  23   141.1     154      4.41  1.4%    60.4%     net.unix (2.2)
  24   134.5     143      4.20  1.4%    61.8%     net.consumers (2.1)
  25   132.7      77      4.15  1.3%    63.1%     net.motss (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.