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Subject: Top 25 News Groups for the last 2 weeks
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Date: Wed, 22-Apr-87 17:03:06 EST
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         No. of        $ Cost  % of  Cumulative
Rank  Kbytes Articles per Site Total  % of Total  Group (Articles/contributor)
   1  1138.1     314     35.57  4.8%     4.8%     comp.sys.atari.st (2.1)
   2  1063.9     589     33.25  4.5%     9.3%     soc.singles (2.8)
   3  1044.0     119     32.63  4.4%    13.7%     net.sources (1.3)
   4   883.7     441     27.62  3.7%    17.4%     soc.women (3.0)
   5   818.9     504     25.59  3.5%    20.8%     rec.arts.sf-lovers (1.9)
   6   806.6     455     25.21  3.4%    24.2%     comp.sys.amiga (2.6)
   7   765.1      18     23.91  3.2%    27.5%     mod.mac.binaries (2.3)
   8   708.0     373     22.12  3.0%    30.5%     comp.sys.ibm.pc (1.6)
   9   700.1     323     21.88  2.9%    33.4%     talk.politics.misc (2.9)
  10   699.8      24     21.87  2.9%    36.4%     comp.binaries.atari.st (1.0)
  11   587.0      14     18.35  2.5%    38.8%     mod.sources (1.0)
  12   586.8     348     18.34  2.5%    41.3%     rec.arts.tv (2.0)
  13   559.7     188     17.49  2.4%    43.7%     talk.religion.misc (2.5)
  14   438.3     302     13.70  1.8%    45.5%     comp.lang.c (2.0)
  15   416.6     249     13.02  1.8%    47.3%     rec.arts.startrek (2.0)
  16   381.8     388     11.93  1.6%    48.9%     rec.music.misc (1.9)
  17   354.6     201     11.08  1.5%    50.4%     rec.arts.comics (1.9)
  18   350.4      17     10.95  1.5%    51.8%     net.sources.games (1.4)
  19   347.4     252     10.86  1.5%    53.3%     rec.autos (1.6)
  20   346.7     436     10.84  1.5%    54.8%     rec.humor (1.5)
  21   333.4     295     10.42  1.4%    56.2%     rec.music.gdead (2.8)
  22   327.0     210     10.22  1.4%    57.5%     comp.arch (1.8)
  23   267.8     158      8.37  1.1%    58.7%     sci.med (1.5)
  24   266.6     161      8.33  1.1%    59.8%     soc.culture.indian (1.9)
  25   262.2     142      8.20  1.1%    60.9%     rec.ham-radio (1.9)

$ 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.