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Subject: Top 25 News Groups for the last 2 weeks
Message-ID: <2541@seismo.CSS.GOV>
Date: Sun, 8-Jun-86 04:10:08 EDT
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         No. of        $ Cost  % of  Cumulative
Rank  Kbytes Articles per Site Total  % of Total  Group (Articles/contributor)
   1   924.7      36     28.90  8.2%     8.2%     net.sources.mac (2.3)
   2   813.3      50     25.42  7.2%    15.4%     net.sources (1.5)
   3   601.3     342     18.79  5.3%    20.7%     net.politics (3.0)
   4   445.8     446     13.93  3.9%    24.6%     net.singles (3.1)
   5   331.7      95     10.37  2.9%    27.6%     net.religion.christian (2.3)
   6   313.7     276      9.80  2.8%    30.3%     net.philosophy (4.2)
   7   300.3     203      9.39  2.7%    33.0%     net.lang.c (2.3)
   8   276.0     128      8.63  2.4%    35.4%     net.religion (2.8)
   9   255.8     241      7.99  2.3%    37.7%     net.music (2.4)
  10   252.8     157      7.90  2.2%    39.9%     net.followup (1.9)
  11   248.0     165      7.75  2.2%    42.1%     net.women (2.0)
  12   246.0       9      7.69  2.2%    44.3%     net.sources.games (2.3)
  13   239.6     258      7.49  2.1%    46.4%     net.auto (2.4)
  14   234.4     204      7.32  2.1%    48.5%     net.micro.amiga (2.5)
  15   229.4     172      7.17  2.0%    50.5%     net.micro.mac (1.8)
  16   218.2     237      6.82  1.9%    52.5%     net.news.group (2.5)
  17   202.9     205      6.34  1.8%    54.3%     net.micro.pc (1.5)
  18   196.6     247      6.14  1.7%    56.0%     net.sf-lovers (2.8)
  19   186.1     149      5.82  1.6%    57.6%     net.audio (1.8)
  20   180.8     280      5.65  1.6%    59.2%     net.jokes (1.9)
  21   179.6     127      5.61  1.6%    60.8%     net.unix-wizards (1.6)
  22   171.0     185      5.34  1.5%    62.3%     net.startrek (2.3)
  23   169.8     171      5.31  1.5%    63.8%     net.movies (2.0)
  24   162.1      86      5.07  1.4%    65.3%     net.politics.theory (3.7)
  25   152.9      85      4.78  1.4%    66.6%     net.religion.jewish (1.8)

$ 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.