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Subject: Top 25 News Groups for the last 2 weeks
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Date: Tue, 24-Feb-87 19:35:33 EST
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         No. of        $ Cost  % of  Cumulative
Rank  Kbytes Articles per Site Total  % of Total  Group (Articles/contributor)
   1  1418.7     278     44.34  6.8%     6.8%     comp.sys.amiga (2.1)
   2  1014.3      25     31.70  4.9%    11.7%     mod.sources (1.0)
   3   869.2     585     27.16  4.2%    15.8%     soc.singles (2.9)
   4   798.0     355     24.94  3.8%    19.7%     talk.politics.misc (2.7)
   5   727.1     308     22.72  3.5%    23.1%     talk.religion.misc (2.4)
   6   675.4     283     21.11  3.2%    26.4%     comp.sys.atari.st (1.9)
   7   597.2     344     18.66  2.9%    29.2%     soc.women (2.4)
   8   587.2      66     18.35  2.8%    32.1%     net.sources (1.4)
   9   507.8     388     15.87  2.4%    34.5%     comp.sys.ibm.pc (1.6)
  10   439.6     251     13.74  2.1%    36.6%     rec.arts.comics (2.3)
  11   426.2      46     13.32  2.0%    38.7%     rec.games.pbm (6.6)
  12   412.0     308     12.88  2.0%    40.6%     rec.music.misc (1.9)
  13   389.6     267     12.17  1.9%    42.5%     rec.arts.sf-lovers (1.6)
  14   357.6     175     11.18  1.7%    44.2%     mod.music.gaffa (1.0)
  15   327.9     255     10.25  1.6%    45.8%     rec.humor (1.4)
  16   322.4      22     10.08  1.5%    47.3%     mod.mac.binaries (2.2)
  17   307.7     115      9.61  1.5%    48.8%     talk.origins (1.9)
  18   280.8     218      8.77  1.3%    50.1%     rec.audio (1.5)
  19   271.4     152      8.48  1.3%    51.4%     rec.ham-radio (1.8)
  20   259.5     221      8.11  1.2%    52.7%     comp.sys.mac (1.6)
  21   257.7     246      8.05  1.2%    53.9%     rec.aviation (2.6)
  22   249.4     286      7.79  1.2%    55.1%     mod.computers.vax (1.5)
  23   246.8     180      7.71  1.2%    56.3%     rec.arts.tv (1.6)
  24   239.0       9      7.47  1.1%    57.5%     mod.mac (1.1)
  25   238.4     173      7.45  1.1%    58.6%     sci.med (1.5)

$ 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.