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Subject: Top 25 News Groups for the last 2 weeks
Message-ID: <1086@seismo.CSS.GOV>
Date: Sun, 22-Dec-85 08:26:15 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec 22 08:26:15 1985
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         No. of        $ Cost  % of  Cumulative
Rank  Kbytes Articles per Site Total  % of Total  Group (Articles/contributor)
   1   860.9      60     26.90  9.7%     9.7%     net.sources (1.5)
   2   476.3     259     14.89  5.4%    15.0%     net.politics (2.8)
   3   398.0     143     12.44  4.5%    19.5%     net.religion (5.1)
   4   340.9     141     10.65  3.8%    23.4%     net.philosophy (5.0)
   5   325.0     215     10.16  3.7%    27.0%     net.micro.amiga (2.2)
   6   303.7     132      9.49  3.4%    30.4%     net.politics.theory (5.5)
   7   297.6     159      9.30  3.3%    33.8%     net.religion.christian (2.7)
   8   257.7      28      8.05  2.9%    36.7%     net.sources.mac (2.0)
   9   252.8     273      7.90  2.8%    39.5%     net.jokes (1.6)
  10   238.7     279      7.46  2.7%    42.2%     net.music (2.8)
  11   231.0     238      7.22  2.6%    44.8%     net.micro (3.1)
  12   208.2     189      6.51  2.3%    47.2%     net.micro.pc (1.5)
  13   207.3     154      6.48  2.3%    49.5%     net.micro.mac (1.5)
  14   186.9     204      5.84  2.1%    51.6%     net.unix-wizards (1.7)
  15   183.6      13      5.74  2.1%    53.7%     mod.newslists (13.0)
  16   181.6     220      5.68  2.0%    55.7%     net.sf-lovers (2.6)
  17   156.7     152      4.90  1.8%    57.5%     net.micro.atari (2.2)
  18   151.8       9      4.74  1.7%    59.2%     net.sources.games (1.8)
  19   150.2     154      4.69  1.7%    60.9%     net.audio (1.9)
  20   125.6      81      3.92  1.4%    62.3%     net.games.frp (1.8)
  21   125.5     142      3.92  1.4%    63.7%     net.movies (1.7)
  22   119.7      88      3.74  1.3%    65.0%     net.nlang (1.4)
  23   118.6     103      3.71  1.3%    66.4%     net.arch (1.6)
  24   105.9     135      3.31  1.2%    67.6%     net.unix (1.8)
  25   105.7     106      3.30  1.2%    68.7%     net.tv.drwho (2.2)

$ 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.