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Subject: Top 25 News Groups for the last 2 weeks
Message-ID: <999@seismo.CSS.GOV>
Date: Tue, 10-Dec-85 03:39:20 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec 10 03:39:20 1985
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         No. of        $ Cost  % of  Cumulative
Rank  Kbytes Articles per Site Total  % of Total  Group (Articles/contributor)
   1  1009.6      41     31.55 10.5%    10.5%     net.sources.mac (2.9)
   2   575.6     268     17.99  6.0%    16.6%     net.politics (3.5)
   3   569.3      58     17.79  5.9%    22.5%     net.sources (1.6)
   4   471.4     151     14.73  4.9%    27.4%     net.religion (4.4)
   5   403.6     150     12.61  4.2%    31.6%     net.philosophy (5.0)
   6   364.6     200     11.39  3.8%    35.5%     net.micro.amiga (2.5)
   7   355.8     157     11.12  3.7%    39.2%     net.religion.christian (2.9)
   8   303.7     169      9.49  3.2%    42.3%     net.micro.mac (1.7)
   9   248.0     272      7.75  2.6%    44.9%     net.music (2.9)
  10   222.6      98      6.96  2.3%    47.3%     net.politics.theory (4.5)
  11   205.2     184      6.41  2.1%    49.4%     net.unix-wizards (1.8)
  12   192.5     171      6.02  2.0%    51.4%     net.micro.atari (2.4)
  13   183.6       7      5.74  1.9%    53.3%     mod.newslists (7.0)
  14   175.5      95      5.48  1.8%    55.2%     net.games.frp (1.6)
  15   166.7     155      5.21  1.7%    56.9%     net.micro.pc (1.7)
  16   165.3     102      5.16  1.7%    58.6%     net.religion.jewish (2.5)
  17   160.3     124      5.01  1.7%    60.3%     net.movies (1.7)
  18   158.7     175      4.96  1.7%    62.0%     net.sf-lovers (2.2)
  19   155.3     212      4.85  1.6%    63.6%     net.unix (2.1)
  20   152.7     203      4.77  1.6%    65.2%     net.jokes (1.5)
  21   149.3     171      4.67  1.6%    66.7%     net.lang.c (2.3)
  22   145.4     151      4.54  1.5%    68.3%     net.audio (1.9)
  23   118.2     177      3.69  1.2%    69.5%     net.micro (2.7)
  24   117.7     102      3.68  1.2%    70.7%     net.auto.tech (1.5)
  25   115.8      62      3.62  1.2%    71.9%     net.text (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.