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Subject: Top 25 News Groups for the last 2 weeks
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Date: 10 Jan 88 01:03:50 GMT
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         No. of        $ Cost  % of  Cumulative
Rank  Kbytes Articles per Site Total  % of Total  Group (Articles/contributor)
   1  1055.1     694     32.97  4.1%     4.1%     comp.sys.amiga (2.5)
   2  1050.7     446     32.84  4.1%     8.1%     comp.sys.ibm.pc (1.5)
   3   863.3     620     26.98  3.3%    11.5%     soc.singles (2.3)
   4   795.2      54     24.85  3.1%    14.5%     comp.mail.maps (54.0)
   5   789.0     217     24.66  3.0%    17.6%     comp.sys.atari.st (1.8)
   6   663.8      63     20.75  2.6%    20.2%     comp.os.minix (1.4)
   7   592.0     257     18.50  2.3%    22.4%     talk.religion.misc (2.4)
   8   564.4     314     17.64  2.2%    24.6%     rec.arts.sf-lovers (1.9)
   9   555.6     295     17.36  2.1%    26.8%     soc.women (2.1)
  10   520.2     366     16.26  2.0%    28.8%     rec.music.misc (2.2)
  11   454.6     222     14.21  1.8%    30.5%     soc.culture.jewish (2.3)
  12   424.1     397     13.25  1.6%    32.2%     comp.sys.mac (1.6)
  13   417.4      10     13.04  1.6%    33.8%     alt.sources (3.3)
  14   409.0     322     12.78  1.6%    35.4%     comp.lang.c (2.1)
  15   355.8      48     11.12  1.4%    36.7%     comp.binaries.ibm.pc (1.3)
  16   339.8     185     10.62  1.3%    38.1%     soc.men (1.5)
  17   339.1     230     10.60  1.3%    39.4%     rec.arts.movies (1.8)
  18   336.0     160     10.50  1.3%    40.7%     soc.motss (1.6)
  19   333.2     280     10.41  1.3%    42.0%     rec.autos (1.8)
  20   326.0     221     10.19  1.3%    43.2%     rec.aviation (2.3)
  21   318.2       9      9.94  1.2%    44.4%     comp.binaries.mac (1.8)
  22   313.5     124      9.80  1.2%    45.7%     soc.culture.china (2.3)
  23   310.0     127      9.69  1.2%    46.9%     rec.arts.comics (2.0)
  24   307.7      12      9.62  1.2%    48.0%     rec.mag.otherrealms (12.0)
  25   303.0     208      9.47  1.2%    49.2%     soc.culture.indian (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.