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Subject: Top 25 News Groups for the last 2 weeks
Message-ID: <2698@seismo.CSS.GOV>
Date: Sun, 22-Jun-86 06:09:17 EDT
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         No. of        $ Cost  % of  Cumulative
Rank  Kbytes Articles per Site Total  % of Total  Group (Articles/contributor)
   1   731.1      97     22.85  6.4%     6.4%     net.sources (1.8)
   2   501.1      21     15.66  4.4%    10.7%     net.sources.games (1.6)
   3   449.2     477     14.04  3.9%    14.6%     net.singles (2.6)
   4   401.2     206     12.54  3.5%    18.1%     net.politics (2.7)
   5   371.2     230     11.60  3.2%    21.4%     net.women (2.2)
   6   328.1     236     10.25  2.9%    24.2%     net.micro.amiga (2.9)
   7   325.7     273     10.18  2.8%    27.0%     net.unix (2.6)
   8   321.8     262     10.05  2.8%    29.8%     net.philosophy (4.9)
   9   288.3     102      9.01  2.5%    32.3%     net.religion.christian (2.5)
  10   273.0     243      8.53  2.4%    34.7%     net.unix-wizards (1.8)
  11   267.6     170      8.36  2.3%    37.1%     net.arch (2.1)
  12   258.1     265      8.07  2.2%    39.3%     net.music (2.9)
  13   255.6     194      7.99  2.2%    41.5%     net.micro.mac (2.0)
  14   252.4      33      7.89  2.2%    43.7%     net.sources.mac (2.2)
  15   241.5     255      7.55  2.1%    45.8%     net.sf-lovers (2.5)
  16   227.6     204      7.11  2.0%    47.8%     net.movies (2.1)
  17   225.0     224      7.03  2.0%    49.8%     net.micro.pc (1.6)
  18   201.5      90      6.30  1.8%    51.5%     net.religion (3.5)
  19   201.4     145      6.29  1.8%    53.3%     net.tv.drwho (2.2)
  20   201.4      96      6.29  1.8%    55.0%     net.micro.atari16 (2.7)
  21   199.2     310      6.22  1.7%    56.7%     net.jokes (1.7)
  22   197.6     197      6.18  1.7%    58.5%     net.lang.c (2.3)
  23   192.0     109      6.00  1.7%    60.1%     net.followup (1.9)
  24   168.5      90      5.27  1.5%    61.6%     net.games.frp (1.9)
  25   166.7      88      5.21  1.5%    63.1%     net.politics.theory (3.1)

$ 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.