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Subject: Top 25 News Groups for the last 2 weeks
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Date: Sun, 22-Nov-87 09:40:09 EST
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         No. of        $ Cost  % of  Cumulative
Rank  Kbytes Articles per Site Total  % of Total  Group (Articles/contributor)
   1  1273.7     917     39.80  3.8%     3.8%     soc.singles (3.0)
   2  1272.3     828     39.76  3.8%     7.5%     comp.sys.amiga (3.0)
   3  1143.9     524     35.75  3.4%    10.9%     talk.politics.misc (3.1)
   4  1057.8      33     33.05  3.1%    14.1%     comp.sources.misc (4.1)
   5   967.1     666     30.22  2.9%    16.9%     rec.arts.startrek (2.5)
   6   866.9      29     27.09  2.6%    19.5%     comp.binaries.mac (2.6)
   7   853.4     393     26.67  2.5%    22.0%     soc.motss (2.5)
   8   836.0     722     26.13  2.5%    24.5%     comp.sys.mac (2.1)
   9   824.6     956     25.77  2.4%    26.9%     talk.bizarre (4.0)
  10   781.4     546     24.42  2.3%    29.2%     comp.sys.ibm.pc (1.5)
  11   631.3     349     19.73  1.9%    31.1%     soc.women (2.0)
  12   602.5     381     18.83  1.8%    32.9%     misc.legal (2.1)
  13   558.3     266     17.45  1.7%    34.5%     talk.religion.misc (2.7)
  14   557.1     441     17.41  1.6%    36.2%     rec.arts.sf-lovers (1.8)
  15   515.7      17     16.12  1.5%    37.7%     comp.binaries.atari.st (1.0)
  16   515.6     287     16.11  1.5%    39.2%     soc.culture.indian (1.9)
  17   485.7     440     15.18  1.4%    40.7%     rec.autos (2.1)
  18   462.0     294     14.44  1.4%    42.0%     rec.arts.comics (2.7)
  19   456.4     299     14.26  1.4%    43.4%     soc.men (1.9)
  20   456.3     276     14.26  1.4%    44.7%     soc.culture.jewish (2.3)
  21   448.4     275     14.01  1.3%    46.1%     misc.invest (2.2)
  22   440.9     436     13.78  1.3%    47.4%     rec.music.misc (2.1)
  23   421.6     323     13.18  1.2%    48.6%     rec.sport.football (2.5)
  24   420.3      10     13.14  1.2%    49.9%     comp.sources.games (1.0)
  25   410.9     257     12.84  1.2%    51.1%     comp.sys.atari.st (1.6)

$ 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.