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Subject: Top 25 News Groups for the last 2 weeks
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Date: Thu, 8-Oct-87 09:40:17 EDT
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         No. of        $ Cost  % of  Cumulative
Rank  Kbytes Articles per Site Total  % of Total  Group (Articles/contributor)
   1  1815.6      38     56.74  5.4%     5.4%     comp.mail.maps (38.0)
   2  1461.4     715     45.67  4.4%     9.8%     soc.women (3.1)
   3  1328.3      31     41.51  4.0%    13.7%     comp.sources.unix (31.0)
   4  1266.7     584     39.59  3.8%    17.5%     comp.sys.ibm.pc (1.6)
   5  1234.4     598     38.58  3.7%    21.2%     comp.sys.mac (2.0)
   6  1148.6     475     35.89  3.4%    24.6%     comp.sys.amiga (2.5)
   7   889.9     712     27.81  2.7%    27.3%     soc.singles (2.5)
   8   855.7     482     26.74  2.6%    29.8%     talk.politics.misc (3.3)
   9   825.5     576     25.80  2.5%    32.3%     rec.arts.startrek (2.0)
  10   720.0     709     22.50  2.1%    34.4%     talk.bizarre (4.1)
  11   687.6      18     21.49  2.0%    36.5%     comp.binaries.mac (4.5)
  12   611.2      13     19.10  1.8%    38.3%     comp.sources.amiga (2.6)
  13   570.9     441     17.84  1.7%    40.0%     rec.arts.sf-lovers (1.7)
  14   532.5     126     16.64  1.6%    41.6%     comp.os.minix (1.5)
  15   531.3     263     16.60  1.6%    43.2%     comp.sys.atari.st (1.6)
  16   472.6      13     14.77  1.4%    44.6%     comp.doc (13.0)
  17   468.8      19     14.65  1.4%    46.0%     comp.sources.misc (1.5)
  18   420.0     310     13.12  1.3%    47.2%     rec.aviation (2.0)
  19   415.2     305     12.97  1.2%    48.5%     comp.unix.wizards (1.5)
  20   404.2     357     12.63  1.2%    49.7%     rec.autos (2.1)
  21   381.4     188     11.92  1.1%    50.8%     misc.legal (1.8)
  22   378.4     238     11.82  1.1%    51.9%     soc.motss (1.7)
  23   378.2     202     11.82  1.1%    53.1%     soc.culture.jewish (2.5)
  24   372.0     189     11.63  1.1%    54.2%     rec.arts.comics (2.1)
  25   362.3       9     11.32  1.1%    55.2%     comp.binaries.amiga (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.