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Subject: Top 25 News Groups for the last 2 weeks
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Date: Wed, 8-Oct-86 02:44:35 EDT
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         No. of        $ Cost  % of  Cumulative
Rank  Kbytes Articles per Site Total  % of Total  Group (Articles/contributor)
   1  1047.2     259     32.73  6.5%     6.5%     net.micro.pc (1.4)
   2   764.0     262     23.87  4.8%    11.3%     talk.politics.misc (2.7)
   3   699.3      48     21.85  4.4%    15.7%     net.sources (1.3)
   4   631.8      18     19.75  3.9%    19.6%     mod.mac.binaries (3.6)
   5   565.0     297     17.66  3.5%    23.2%     net.micro.atari16 (2.0)
   6   553.3     217     17.29  3.5%    26.6%     talk.religion.misc (2.3)
   7   547.8     338     17.12  3.4%    30.0%     net.micro.amiga (2.2)
   8   537.8      17     16.81  3.4%    33.4%     net.sources.mac (1.7)
   9   458.6     346     14.33  2.9%    36.3%     net.sf-lovers (2.0)
  10   450.9     171     14.09  2.8%    39.1%     net.legal (1.7)
  11   411.0     143     12.85  2.6%    41.6%     net.religion.christian (2.6)
  12   406.6     262     12.71  2.5%    44.2%     net.comics (2.6)
  13   406.3     304     12.70  2.5%    46.7%     net.micro.mac (1.7)
  14   400.6     214     12.52  2.5%    49.2%     net.med (2.3)
  15   345.7       7     10.80  2.2%    51.4%     mod.amiga.sources (7.0)
  16   311.3     214      9.73  1.9%    53.3%     net.auto (1.6)
  17   275.0     225      8.59  1.7%    55.0%     net.unix-wizards (1.5)
  18   255.3     205      7.98  1.6%    56.6%     net.unix (1.7)
  19   252.9      11      7.90  1.6%    58.2%     mod.mac (5.5)
  20   251.9     146      7.87  1.6%    59.8%     net.space (1.9)
  21   246.3      62      7.70  1.5%    61.3%     soc.singles (2.0)
  22   217.8      15      6.81  1.4%    62.7%     mod.risks (15.0)
  23   201.6      73      6.30  1.3%    64.0%     talk.philosophy.misc (2.1)
  24   194.0     191      6.06  1.2%    65.2%     net.jokes (1.4)
  25   192.2       4      6.01  1.2%    66.4%     mod.newslists (2.0)

$ 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.