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Subject: Top 25 News Groups for the last 2 weeks
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Date: Sat, 22-Aug-87 09:40:07 EDT
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         No. of        $ Cost  % of  Cumulative
Rank  Kbytes Articles per Site Total  % of Total  Group (Articles/contributor)
   1  1329.0     724     41.53  4.9%     4.9%     soc.women (3.1)
   2   968.1     463     30.25  3.5%     8.4%     talk.politics.misc (3.7)
   3   887.5      30     27.73  3.3%    11.7%     comp.sources.misc (1.9)
   4   843.7     512     26.37  3.1%    14.8%     comp.sys.ibm.pc (1.5)
   5   812.9     548     25.40  3.0%    17.7%     comp.sys.mac (1.9)
   6   792.3      22     24.76  2.9%    20.6%     comp.sources.unix (22.0)
   7   695.9     431     21.75  2.6%    23.2%     comp.sys.amiga (2.2)
   8   694.2     562     21.70  2.5%    25.7%     soc.singles (2.5)
   9   663.3     397     20.73  2.4%    28.2%     soc.men (2.3)
  10   656.4     206     20.51  2.4%    30.6%     comp.os.vms (1.4)
  11   644.1     242     20.13  2.4%    32.9%     rec.arts.comics (2.7)
  12   627.7      21     19.61  2.3%    35.2%     comp.binaries.mac (5.3)
  13   625.5     647     19.55  2.3%    37.5%     talk.bizarre (3.0)
  14   538.3     247     16.82  2.0%    39.5%     talk.religion.newage (2.8)
  15   523.9     443     16.37  1.9%    41.4%     rec.music.misc (2.1)
  16   462.5      70     14.45  1.7%    43.1%     comp.os.minix (1.6)
  17   438.3     278     13.70  1.6%    44.7%     rec.arts.startrek (2.3)
  18   419.5     379     13.11  1.5%    46.3%     rec.autos (1.9)
  19   417.5     264     13.05  1.5%    47.8%     misc.kids (1.6)
  20   408.9     319     12.78  1.5%    49.3%     rec.aviation (2.3)
  21   392.3     285     12.26  1.4%    50.7%     comp.lang.c (1.9)
  22   363.3     162     11.35  1.3%    52.1%     soc.culture.jewish (2.3)
  23   353.8     425     11.06  1.3%    53.3%     rec.humor (1.7)
  24   351.4     237     10.98  1.3%    54.6%     sci.space (1.8)
  25   338.5     304     10.58  1.2%    55.9%     misc.consumers (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.