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Subject: Top 25 News Groups for the last 2 weeks
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Date: Mon, 22-Sep-86 15:12:57 EDT
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         No. of        $ Cost  % of  Cumulative
Rank  Kbytes Articles per Site Total  % of Total  Group (Articles/contributor)
   1  1633.2      29     51.04 10.4%    10.4%     mod.map (29.0)
   2   918.7     376     28.71  5.9%    16.3%     talk.politics.misc (2.7)
   3   637.2      63     19.91  4.1%    20.4%     net.sources (1.4)
   4   602.6     357     18.83  3.9%    24.2%     net.singles (2.1)
   5   574.3      11     17.95  3.7%    27.9%     net.sources.mac (2.2)
   6   561.0     391     17.53  3.6%    31.5%     net.sf-lovers (1.9)
   7   522.6     166     16.33  3.3%    34.8%     net.micro.pc (1.3)
   8   443.8     205     13.87  2.8%    37.7%     talk.religion.misc (1.8)
   9   417.2     252     13.04  2.7%    40.3%     net.comics (2.7)
  10   353.3     182     11.04  2.3%    42.6%     net.micro.amiga (2.0)
  11   343.4     156     10.73  2.2%    44.8%     net.legal (1.9)
  12   319.2     188      9.97  2.0%    46.8%     net.women (1.6)
  13   304.2     183      9.51  1.9%    48.8%     net.micro.atari16 (1.7)
  14   287.3      12      8.98  1.8%    50.6%     mod.mac.binaries (4.0)
  15   282.4     207      8.82  1.8%    52.4%     net.auto (1.5)
  16   279.3     108      8.73  1.8%    54.2%     net.religion.christian (1.9)
  17   271.7     176      8.49  1.7%    55.9%     net.unix (1.6)
  18   264.0     191      8.25  1.7%    57.6%     net.micro.mac (1.6)
  19   230.8      11      7.21  1.5%    59.1%     mod.sources (11.0)
  20   230.4      12      7.20  1.5%    60.6%     mod.mac (4.0)
  21   229.2     132      7.16  1.5%    62.0%     net.arch (1.7)
  22   209.2      57      6.54  1.3%    63.4%     net.motss (2.0)
  23   206.0      12      6.44  1.3%    64.7%     mod.newslists (4.0)
  24   184.4     146      5.76  1.2%    65.9%     net.space (2.2)
  25   182.8      71      5.71  1.2%    67.0%     net.news.group (1.4)

$ 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.