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Subject: Top 25 News Groups for the last 2 weeks
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Date: Fri, 8-May-87 02:39:47 EDT
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         No. of        $ Cost  % of  Cumulative
Rank  Kbytes Articles per Site Total  % of Total  Group (Articles/contributor)
   1  1783.2      45     55.72  7.1%     7.1%     comp.mail.maps (7.5)
   2  1511.5     609     47.23  6.0%    13.1%     comp.sys.amiga (2.9)
   3  1341.1     687     41.91  5.3%    18.5%     soc.women (3.7)
   4   916.8     646     28.65  3.7%    22.1%     rec.arts.sf-lovers (2.1)
   5   814.9     650     25.47  3.2%    25.4%     soc.singles (2.9)
   6   611.0     325     19.09  2.4%    27.8%     talk.politics.misc (4.2)
   7   587.1     320     18.35  2.3%    30.1%     comp.sys.ibm.pc (1.3)
   8   452.4     286     14.14  1.8%    31.9%     comp.os.vms (1.8)
   9   425.5     179     13.30  1.7%    33.6%     talk.religion.misc (2.1)
  10   373.5     278     11.67  1.5%    35.1%     rec.arts.startrek (2.0)
  11   358.7     207     11.21  1.4%    36.5%     rec.arts.comics (2.1)
  12   358.6      13     11.21  1.4%    38.0%     comp.binaries.mac (1.6)
  13   355.3     202     11.10  1.4%    39.4%     misc.headlines (2.1)
  14   352.8      31     11.03  1.4%    40.8%     rec.games.pbm (6.2)
  15   352.5     475     11.02  1.4%    42.2%     rec.humor (1.7)
  16   348.6     286     10.89  1.4%    43.6%     misc.consumers (1.4)
  17   344.4      99     10.76  1.4%    45.0%     comp.os.minix (1.5)
  18   338.7     248     10.58  1.3%    46.3%     comp.sys.atari.st (1.8)
  19   314.4     238      9.83  1.3%    47.6%     comp.lang.c (1.7)
  20   307.6     141      9.61  1.2%    48.8%     rec.games.frp (1.9)
  21   303.7     277      9.49  1.2%    50.0%     rec.autos (1.6)
  22   299.1     303      9.35  1.2%    51.2%     rec.music.misc (1.5)
  23   296.4     285      9.26  1.2%    52.4%     comp.sys.mac (1.5)
  24   289.8      30      9.06  1.2%    53.5%     comp.mail.elm (15.0)
  25   285.9     224      8.94  1.1%    54.7%     soc.culture.indian (2.1)

$ 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.