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Subject: Top 25 News Groups for the last 2 weeks
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Date: Sun, 8-Mar-87 02:30:43 EST
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         No. of        $ Cost  % of  Cumulative
Rank  Kbytes Articles per Site Total  % of Total  Group (Articles/contributor)
   1  1604.7      36     50.15  7.1%     7.1%     mod.map (1.0)
   2   980.8     724     30.65  4.3%    11.4%     soc.singles (3.0)
   3   925.6      26     28.93  4.1%    15.5%     mod.sources (1.0)
   4   886.5     332     27.70  3.9%    19.5%     comp.sys.amiga (2.4)
   5   761.4     470     23.79  3.4%    22.8%     soc.women (2.5)
   6   749.1     260     23.41  3.3%    26.1%     talk.religion.misc (2.5)
   7   594.4     417     18.58  2.6%    28.8%     comp.sys.ibm.pc (1.7)
   8   576.2     276     18.01  2.5%    31.3%     talk.politics.misc (2.3)
   9   468.2     256     14.63  2.1%    33.4%     rec.ham-radio (2.1)
  10   466.6      19     14.58  2.1%    35.5%     mod.mac.binaries (2.4)
  11   448.9     302     14.03  2.0%    37.4%     comp.sys.atari.st (2.2)
  12   404.0     240     12.62  1.8%    39.2%     rec.arts.sf-lovers (1.6)
  13   391.1     255     12.22  1.7%    41.0%     rec.arts.comics (2.5)
  14   318.9     125      9.97  1.4%    42.4%     comp.arch (1.5)
  15   312.8      39      9.77  1.4%    43.8%     net.sources.games (1.2)
  16   311.9     173      9.75  1.4%    45.1%     sci.med (1.9)
  17   311.2     276      9.72  1.4%    46.5%     rec.humor (1.5)
  18   304.3     287      9.51  1.3%    47.9%     mod.computers.vax (1.5)
  19   303.1     190      9.47  1.3%    49.2%     sci.astro (1.9)
  20   300.8      48      9.40  1.3%    50.5%     net.sources (1.1)
  21   297.1     167      9.28  1.3%    51.8%     soc.college (1.6)
  22   294.9     227      9.21  1.3%    53.1%     comp.sys.mac (1.6)
  23   285.5     232      8.92  1.3%    54.4%     rec.audio (1.6)
  24   284.8      21      8.90  1.3%    55.7%     news.lists (2.3)
  25   279.8     240      8.74  1.2%    56.9%     rec.music.misc (1.7)

$ 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.