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Subject: Top 25 News Groups for the last 2 weeks
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Date: Mon, 8-Dec-86 13:26:51 EST
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         No. of        $ Cost  % of  Cumulative
Rank  Kbytes Articles per Site Total  % of Total  Group (Articles/contributor)
   1  2028.1      38     63.38 14.4%    14.4%     mod.map (12.7)
   2   952.3      17     29.76  6.8%    21.1%     net.sources.games (1.4)
   3   727.5     133     22.74  5.2%    26.3%     comp.sys.atari.st (2.0)
   4   685.3      18     21.42  4.9%    31.1%     mod.sources (18.0)
   5   636.2      18     19.88  4.5%    35.7%     mod.mac.binaries (3.0)
   6   554.4     221     17.33  3.9%    39.6%     talk.religion.misc (2.7)
   7   422.9     321     13.22  3.0%    42.6%     rec.arts.startrek (2.0)
   8   397.6     241     12.43  2.8%    45.4%     comp.sys.amiga (2.2)
   9   300.3     100      9.38  2.1%    47.5%     talk.philosophy.misc (2.7)
  10   286.2     163      8.94  2.0%    49.6%     talk.politics.misc (2.4)
  11   269.3      30      8.42  1.9%    51.5%     net.sources (1.3)
  12   264.9      11      8.28  1.9%    53.3%     mod.mac (5.5)
  13   217.3     160      6.79  1.5%    54.9%     rec.arts.sf-lovers (1.4)
  14   216.1     132      6.75  1.5%    56.4%     comp.sys.mac (1.5)
  15   215.4     160      6.73  1.5%    57.9%     rec.arts.movies (1.5)
  16   201.1      31      6.28  1.4%    59.4%     comp.text (1.1)
  17   190.9     155      5.96  1.4%    60.7%     comp.sys.ibm.pc (1.5)
  18   185.9       7      5.81  1.3%    62.0%     mod.mac.sources (7.0)
  19   182.4      68      5.70  1.3%    63.3%     talk.abortion (2.3)
  20   172.7     171      5.40  1.2%    64.6%     talk.bizarre (1.7)
  21   170.4     156      5.32  1.2%    65.8%     rec.music.misc (1.4)
  22   170.1     110      5.32  1.2%    67.0%     rec.sport.football (1.9)
  23   160.6      34      5.02  1.1%    68.1%     mod.recipes (3.1)
  24   156.6       8      4.89  1.1%    69.2%     mod.politics.arms-d (8.0)
  25   153.7     120      4.80  1.1%    70.3%     comp.lang.c (1.8)

$ 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.