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Subject: Top 25 News Groups for the last 2 weeks
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Date: Thu, 22-Oct-87 09:40:12 EDT
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         No. of        $ Cost  % of  Cumulative
Rank  Kbytes Articles per Site Total  % of Total  Group (Articles/contributor)
   1  1257.0      33     39.28  4.2%     4.2%     comp.sources.unix (16.5)
   2  1011.1     761     31.60  3.4%     7.6%     rec.arts.startrek (2.4)
   3   954.3     521     29.82  3.2%    10.8%     comp.sys.ibm.pc (1.6)
   4   923.3     433     28.85  3.1%    13.9%     soc.women (2.3)
   5   890.1     576     27.81  3.0%    16.9%     comp.sys.amiga (2.6)
   6   782.7     741     24.46  2.6%    19.5%     comp.sys.mac (2.1)
   7   732.1     306     22.88  2.5%    21.9%     comp.sys.atari.st (1.8)
   8   686.7      19     21.46  2.3%    24.2%     comp.binaries.mac (2.4)
   9   651.3     744     20.35  2.2%    26.4%     talk.bizarre (4.5)
  10   615.9     470     19.25  2.1%    28.5%     rec.arts.sf-lovers (1.8)
  11   585.3     525     18.29  2.0%    30.5%     soc.singles (2.4)
  12   560.9     295     17.53  1.9%    32.3%     talk.politics.misc (2.9)
  13   549.2       9     17.16  1.8%    34.2%     unix-pc.sources (3.0)
  14   546.8     424     17.09  1.8%    36.0%     rec.autos (2.3)
  15   420.5     214     13.14  1.4%    37.4%     soc.motss (1.8)
  16   417.9     305     13.06  1.4%    38.8%     rec.audio (1.9)
  17   399.0     314     12.47  1.3%    40.2%     rec.sport.baseball (2.7)
  18   394.4     276     12.33  1.3%    41.5%     comp.unix.wizards (1.5)
  19   388.9     310     12.15  1.3%    42.8%     comp.lang.c (1.7)
  20   384.5     126     12.02  1.3%    44.1%     talk.abortion (3.9)
  21   377.5     204     11.80  1.3%    45.3%     misc.legal (1.6)
  22   375.3     196     11.73  1.3%    46.6%     soc.culture.jewish (2.1)
  23   367.3     369     11.48  1.2%    47.8%     rec.arts.movies (1.9)
  24   355.5     316     11.11  1.2%    49.0%     misc.consumers (1.5)
  25   351.1     195     10.97  1.2%    50.2%     rec.arts.comics (2.2)

$ 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.