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Subject: Top 25 News Groups for the last 2 weeks
Message-ID: <1478@seismo.CSS.GOV>
Date: Sat, 22-Feb-86 15:27:10 EST
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         No. of        $ Cost  % of  Cumulative
Rank  Kbytes Articles per Site Total  % of Total  Group (Articles/contributor)
   1   782.4      27     24.45  7.1%     7.1%     net.sources.mac (2.1)
   2   734.4     116     22.95  6.6%    13.7%     net.sources (1.7)
   3   611.0     243     19.09  5.5%    19.3%     net.religion.christian (4.6)
   4   601.2     411     18.79  5.4%    24.7%     net.women (2.9)
   5   452.0     181     14.12  4.1%    28.8%     net.religion (4.0)
   6   371.7     159     11.62  3.4%    32.1%     net.philosophy (4.5)
   7   354.8     183     11.09  3.2%    35.4%     net.politics (2.5)
   8   343.9     245     10.75  3.1%    38.5%     net.micro.pc (1.7)
   9   329.8     269     10.31  3.0%    41.5%     net.columbia (1.7)
  10   290.3     334      9.07  2.6%    44.1%     net.music (2.8)
  11   285.7     218      8.93  2.6%    46.7%     net.singles (2.1)
  12   270.2     192      8.44  2.4%    49.1%     net.sf-lovers (2.2)
  13   259.8     484      8.12  2.4%    51.5%     net.jokes (2.2)
  14   246.8     279      7.71  2.2%    53.7%     net.space (2.7)
  15   218.6     232      6.83  2.0%    55.7%     net.micro.mac (2.0)
  16   189.4     184      5.92  1.7%    57.4%     net.audio (1.8)
  17   177.1     159      5.53  1.6%    59.0%     net.movies (1.8)
  18   174.7     155      5.46  1.6%    60.6%     net.auto (1.8)
  19   173.7     203      5.43  1.6%    62.1%     net.unix-wizards (1.8)
  20   169.2     117      5.29  1.5%    63.7%     net.unix (2.1)
  21   168.1     176      5.25  1.5%    65.2%     net.micro.amiga (2.8)
  22   148.1     103      4.63  1.3%    66.5%     net.legal (1.8)
  23   136.5      10      4.27  1.2%    67.8%     net.sources.games (1.3)
  24   133.5      17      4.17  1.2%    69.0%     mod.music (8.5)
  25   131.1     116      4.10  1.2%    70.2%     net.books (1.9)

$ 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.