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Subject: Top 25 News Groups for the last 2 weeks
Message-ID: <1141@seismo.CSS.GOV>
Date: Thu, 9-Jan-86 00:38:13 EST
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         No. of        $ Cost  % of  Cumulative
Rank  Kbytes Articles per Site Total  % of Total  Group (Articles/contributor)
   1   537.8      71     16.81  8.0%     8.0%     net.sources (2.5)
   2   509.8     190     15.93  7.6%    15.7%     net.religion (4.8)
   3   438.1     152     13.69  6.6%    22.2%     net.philosophy (4.8)
   4   370.3     163     11.57  5.5%    27.8%     net.micro.amiga (2.4)
   5   350.3      17     10.95  5.2%    33.0%     net.sources.mac (1.5)
   6   273.8     174      8.56  4.1%    37.1%     net.politics (2.8)
   7   257.2     113      8.04  3.8%    40.9%     net.religion.christian (3.0)
   8   215.3      94      6.73  3.2%    44.2%     net.politics.theory (4.7)
   9   183.9      14      5.75  2.7%    46.9%     net.sources.games (1.8)
  10   168.9     116      5.28  2.5%    49.4%     net.micro.pc (1.3)
  11   155.0     138      4.84  2.3%    51.7%     net.music (2.3)
  12   151.9     116      4.75  2.3%    54.0%     net.auto (1.9)
  13   147.8     141      4.62  2.2%    56.2%     net.sf-lovers (1.9)
  14   141.8     114      4.43  2.1%    58.4%     net.micro.atari (2.2)
  15   134.4     134      4.20  2.0%    60.4%     net.consumers (1.5)
  16   133.4     135      4.17  2.0%    62.4%     net.micro (2.4)
  17   133.3     114      4.17  2.0%    64.4%     net.audio (1.6)
  18   122.1      94      3.82  1.8%    66.2%     net.micro.mac (1.6)
  19   100.9      92      3.15  1.5%    67.7%     net.kids (1.9)
  20    93.9       7      2.93  1.4%    69.1%     mod.newslists (7.0)
  21    85.3     109      2.66  1.3%    70.4%     net.movies (1.8)
  22    80.6      87      2.52  1.2%    71.6%     net.unix-wizards (1.7)
  23    79.4      42      2.48  1.2%    72.8%     net.motss (1.9)
  24    79.2      98      2.47  1.2%    73.9%     net.space (2.8)
  25    76.0      20      2.37  1.1%    75.1%     net.games.frp (1.7)

$ 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.