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Subject: Top 25 News Groups for the last 2 weeks
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Date: Sat, 8-Nov-86 02:33:26 EST
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         No. of        $ Cost  % of  Cumulative
Rank  Kbytes Articles per Site Total  % of Total  Group (Articles/contributor)
   1  1863.6      36     58.24 10.4%    10.4%     mod.map (18.0)
   2   891.4      20     27.86  5.0%    15.4%     mod.sources (20.0)
   3   761.8      91     23.80  4.3%    19.7%     net.sources (1.6)
   4   662.0     221     20.69  3.7%    23.4%     talk.religion.misc (2.9)
   5   593.0     208     18.53  3.3%    26.7%     net.micro.atari16 (1.9)
   6   587.3     326     18.35  3.3%    30.0%     net.micro.pc (1.6)
   7   406.0      19     12.69  2.3%    32.2%     net.sources.mac (2.4)
   8   363.3     216     11.35  2.0%    34.3%     net.micro.amiga (1.9)
   9   363.1     150     11.35  2.0%    36.3%     talk.politics.misc (2.2)
  10   329.2     258     10.29  1.8%    38.1%     net.unix-wizards (1.6)
  11   297.0     256      9.28  1.7%    39.8%     net.sf-lovers (1.5)
  12   284.2      11      8.88  1.6%    41.4%     mod.mac.binaries (2.2)
  13   271.4       6      8.48  1.5%    42.9%     mod.mac.sources (3.0)
  14   267.3      96      8.35  1.5%    44.4%     sci.med (1.7)
  15   265.8      10      8.31  1.5%    45.9%     mod.newslists (3.3)
  16   252.5      11      7.89  1.4%    47.3%     mod.mac (5.5)
  17   251.6     197      7.86  1.4%    48.7%     net.auto (1.8)
  18   247.8     129      7.74  1.4%    50.1%     net.comics (1.6)
  19   243.5     131      7.61  1.4%    51.4%     misc.legal (1.4)
  20   242.2     200      7.57  1.4%    52.8%     net.music (1.9)
  21   232.1     226      7.25  1.3%    54.1%     net.jokes (1.4)
  22   225.1     178      7.04  1.3%    55.3%     net.sport.baseball (2.1)
  23   224.2     164      7.01  1.3%    56.6%     net.sport.football (2.2)
  24   214.1     162      6.69  1.2%    57.8%     net.movies (1.7)
  25   207.7      57      6.49  1.2%    59.0%     net.ai (1.6)

$ 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.