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Subject: Top 25 News Groups for the last 2 weeks
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Date: 27 Jan 88 01:19:05 GMT
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         No. of        $ Cost  % of  Cumulative
Rank  Kbytes Articles per Site Total  % of Total  Group (Articles/contributor)
   1  2348.4      47     73.39  6.2%     6.2%     comp.sources.games (1.0)
   2  1492.5     734     46.64  4.0%    10.2%     comp.sys.ibm.pc (1.6)
   3  1231.8     579     38.49  3.3%    13.5%     rec.arts.sf-lovers (1.9)
   4  1215.0     317     37.97  3.2%    16.7%     comp.sys.atari.st (1.9)
   5  1110.6     797     34.71  3.0%    19.7%     comp.sys.amiga (2.3)
   6  1097.2     924     34.29  2.9%    22.6%     comp.sys.mac (2.0)
   7  1075.9      75     33.62  2.9%    25.4%     comp.binaries.ibm.pc (1.5)
   8   985.3      54     30.79  2.6%    28.1%     comp.mail.maps (54.0)
   9   921.4     776     28.79  2.4%    30.5%     soc.singles (2.7)
  10   808.0      31     25.25  2.1%    32.7%     comp.binaries.mac (2.4)
  11   787.9     444     24.62  2.1%    34.8%     soc.women (2.4)
  12   737.8     616     23.06  2.0%    36.7%     rec.humor (1.8)
  13   721.2     631     22.54  1.9%    38.6%     comp.lang.c (2.6)
  14   591.0     339     18.47  1.6%    40.2%     talk.politics.misc (2.2)
  15   576.2     200     18.01  1.5%    41.7%     misc.headlines (2.2)
  16   575.9     467     18.00  1.5%    43.3%     talk.bizarre (2.9)
  17   575.8     336     17.99  1.5%    44.8%     soc.motss (2.3)
  18   563.3     354     17.60  1.5%    46.3%     misc.legal (1.7)
  19   552.9     388     17.28  1.5%    47.8%     rec.arts.startrek (1.9)
  20   541.3     434     16.92  1.4%    49.2%     rec.music.misc (2.2)
  21   516.0     433     16.13  1.4%    50.6%     rec.autos (2.0)
  22   507.8     291     15.87  1.3%    51.9%     soc.culture.china (4.3)
  23   482.9     344     15.09  1.3%    53.2%     soc.culture.indian (2.3)
  24   457.9     164     14.31  1.2%    54.4%     rec.games.frp (1.6)
  25   430.5     165     13.45  1.1%    55.6%     rec.music.synth (1.7)

$ 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.