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Subject: Top 25 News Groups for the last 2 weeks
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Date: Tue, 22-Sep-87 09:40:43 EDT
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         No. of        $ Cost  % of  Cumulative
Rank  Kbytes Articles per Site Total  % of Total  Group (Articles/contributor)
   1  1613.6      39     50.43  5.6%     5.6%     comp.sources.unix (6.5)
   2  1325.2     649     41.41  4.6%    10.2%     soc.women (3.2)
   3  1090.3     540     34.07  3.8%    14.0%     comp.sys.ibm.pc (1.6)
   4  1030.4     857     32.20  3.6%    17.6%     soc.singles (3.4)
   5   842.9     392     26.34  2.9%    20.5%     talk.politics.misc (2.9)
   6   744.9      22     23.28  2.6%    23.1%     comp.binaries.mac (11.0)
   7   708.6     450     22.14  2.5%    25.5%     comp.sys.amiga (2.5)
   8   657.4     422     20.54  2.3%    27.8%     soc.men (2.5)
   9   653.6     602     20.43  2.3%    30.1%     comp.sys.mac (1.9)
  10   552.1     249     17.25  1.9%    32.0%     comp.os.vms (1.5)
  11   527.0     187     16.47  1.8%    33.8%     comp.sys.atari.st (1.5)
  12   524.3     214     16.39  1.8%    35.7%     comp.mail.elm (17.8)
  13   516.9     259     16.15  1.8%    37.5%     soc.culture.jewish (3.1)
  14   510.7     398     15.96  1.8%    39.2%     rec.arts.sf-lovers (1.6)
  15   505.5     356     15.80  1.8%    41.0%     rec.aviation (2.7)
  16   500.8     287     15.65  1.7%    42.7%     rec.arts.comics (2.8)
  17   490.0     390     15.31  1.7%    44.4%     rec.autos (2.3)
  18   469.4     272     14.67  1.6%    46.1%     rec.humor (1.5)
  19   423.5     491     13.24  1.5%    47.5%     talk.bizarre (2.7)
  20   422.1     108     13.19  1.5%    49.0%     comp.os.minix (1.4)
  21   389.3       9     12.16  1.4%    50.4%     comp.binaries.amiga (1.5)
  22   342.7     297     10.71  1.2%    51.5%     rec.music.gdead (2.2)
  23   334.2     263     10.44  1.2%    52.7%     comp.unix.questions (1.5)
  24   324.5     290     10.14  1.1%    53.8%     rec.music.misc (1.7)
  25   316.0     244      9.88  1.1%    54.9%     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.