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Subject: Top 25 News Groups for the last 2 weeks
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Date: Mon, 22-Jun-87 02:52:54 EDT
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         No. of        $ Cost  % of  Cumulative
Rank  Kbytes Articles per Site Total  % of Total  Group (Articles/contributor)
   1  1124.9     779     35.15  4.7%     4.7%     soc.women (2.3)
   2   977.1      35     30.53  4.1%     8.8%     comp.sources.misc (2.1)
   3   841.5     676     26.30  3.5%    12.3%     soc.singles (2.7)
   4   833.2      19     26.04  3.5%    15.8%     comp.binaries.mac (3.2)
   5   752.6      18     23.52  3.2%    19.0%     comp.sources.games (1.0)
   6   703.7      15     21.99  3.0%    21.9%     comp.sources.unix (15.0)
   7   615.1     375     19.22  2.6%    24.5%     comp.sys.amiga (2.3)
   8   585.6     522     18.30  2.5%    27.0%     rec.autos (2.3)
   9   535.2     419     16.72  2.2%    29.2%     comp.sys.mac (1.8)
  10   522.5      11     16.33  2.2%    31.4%     comp.mail.maps (11.0)
  11   510.2     316     15.94  2.1%    33.6%     comp.os.vms (1.7)
  12   494.3     200     15.45  2.1%    35.6%     comp.sys.atari.st (1.6)
  13   491.7     648     15.37  2.1%    37.7%     rec.arts.sf-lovers (1.3)
  14   470.5     248     14.70  2.0%    39.7%     talk.politics.misc (2.4)
  15   385.1     320     12.04  1.6%    41.3%     rec.music.misc (2.0)
  16   379.1     302     11.85  1.6%    42.9%     comp.sys.ibm.pc (1.3)
  17   368.0     273     11.50  1.5%    44.4%     rec.aviation (2.4)
  18   334.6     436     10.46  1.4%    45.8%     rec.humor (1.8)
  19   311.1     193      9.72  1.3%    47.1%     rec.sport.basketball (2.3)
  20   297.3     245      9.29  1.2%    48.4%     rec.audio (1.5)
  21   283.6     213      8.86  1.2%    49.6%     misc.consumers (1.5)
  22   278.0     178      8.69  1.2%    50.7%     rec.arts.movies (1.6)
  23   277.8     153      8.68  1.2%    51.9%     soc.culture.jewish (2.1)
  24   274.9     216      8.59  1.2%    53.0%     comp.unix.wizards (1.5)
  25   261.4      93      8.17  1.1%    54.1%     talk.religion.misc (2.0)

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presuming $0.15 per minute and 800 baud effective throughput.