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Subject: Top 25 News Groups for the last 2 weeks
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Date: Fri, 8-Aug-86 10:12:38 EDT
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         No. of        $ Cost  % of  Cumulative
Rank  Kbytes Articles per Site Total  % of Total  Group (Articles/contributor)
   1  1484.2      80     46.38 13.4%    13.4%     net.sources (2.3)
   2   649.8     427     20.31  5.9%    19.2%     net.politics (3.4)
   3   590.9     559     18.47  5.3%    24.5%     net.singles (2.8)
   4   496.7     411     15.52  4.5%    29.0%     net.women (2.7)
   5   459.3     389     14.35  4.1%    33.2%     net.movies (2.3)
   6   376.9     355     11.78  3.4%    36.5%     net.legal (2.7)
   7   348.5     410     10.89  3.1%    39.7%     net.sf-lovers (3.1)
   8   330.4      18     10.32  3.0%    42.7%     net.sources.mac (2.0)
   9   316.9     341      9.90  2.9%    45.5%     net.auto (2.2)
  10   273.7     162      8.55  2.5%    48.0%     net.philosophy (3.2)
  11   270.2     237      8.44  2.4%    50.4%     net.motss (2.5)
  12   266.0      29      8.31  2.4%    52.8%     net.bugs.4bsd (1.7)
  13   258.0     179      8.06  2.3%    55.1%     net.micro.amiga (2.0)
  14   248.9      14      7.78  2.2%    57.4%     net.sources.games (1.6)
  15   239.5     174      7.48  2.2%    59.5%     net.unix-wizards (2.0)
  16   231.7     191      7.24  2.1%    61.6%     net.micro.mac (2.0)
  17   221.4     224      6.92  2.0%    63.6%     net.consumers (1.7)
  18   208.5     125      6.52  1.9%    65.5%     net.sci (1.8)
  19   206.4      95      6.45  1.9%    67.4%     net.religion.christian (2.3)
  20   204.1     155      6.38  1.8%    69.2%     net.micro.atari16 (2.5)
  21   198.3     217      6.20  1.8%    71.0%     net.music (2.3)
  22   195.8     145      6.12  1.8%    72.7%     net.med (2.3)
  23   184.4     283      5.76  1.7%    74.4%     net.jokes (1.8)
  24   173.7     235      5.43  1.6%    76.0%     net.sport.baseball (3.7)
  25   171.2     110      5.35  1.5%    77.5%     net.abortion (4.8)

$ 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.