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Subject: Top 25 News Groups for the last 2 weeks
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Date: 22 Feb 88 11:34:37 GMT
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         No. of        $ Cost  % of  Cumulative
Rank  Kbytes Articles per Site Total  % of Total  Group (Articles/contributor)
   1  1175.9     696     36.75  3.5%     3.5%     comp.sys.ibm.pc (1.7)
   2  1066.7     948     33.33  3.1%     6.6%     soc.singles (3.0)
   3  1038.4     698     32.45  3.1%     9.7%     soc.women (2.9)
   4  1035.2    1263     32.35  3.1%    12.7%     talk.bizarre (6.2)
   5   988.8      27     30.90  2.9%    15.7%     comp.sources.unix (27.0)
   6   891.0     625     27.84  2.6%    18.3%     comp.sys.amiga (2.0)
   7   831.1     414     25.97  2.5%    20.7%     talk.politics.misc (3.5)
   8   807.6     741     25.24  2.4%    23.1%     comp.sys.mac (1.9)
   9   782.7     354     24.46  2.3%    25.4%     comp.os.vms (1.6)
  10   758.1     540     23.69  2.2%    27.7%     rec.arts.startrek (2.1)
  11   705.7      42     22.05  2.1%    29.8%     comp.mail.maps (42.0)
  12   570.1     450     17.82  1.7%    31.4%     rec.music.misc (2.1)
  13   558.9     283     17.47  1.7%    33.1%     comp.sys.atari.st (1.6)
  14   535.2      21     16.73  1.6%    34.7%     comp.binaries.ibm.pc (1.5)
  15   484.6     140     15.14  1.4%    36.1%     misc.legal (1.6)
  16   471.7     348     14.74  1.4%    37.5%     misc.consumers (1.7)
  17   470.4     311     14.70  1.4%    38.9%     soc.men (2.0)
  18   468.0     168     14.63  1.4%    40.3%     talk.religion.misc (2.2)
  19   460.8     366     14.40  1.4%    41.6%     rec.autos (1.9)
  20   454.8     187     14.21  1.3%    43.0%     soc.culture.china (2.6)
  21   445.8      11     13.93  1.3%    44.3%     comp.doc (11.0)
  22   434.0     181     13.56  1.3%    45.6%     rec.arts.comics (2.0)
  23   380.3     330     11.88  1.1%    46.7%     comp.lang.c (1.9)
  24   373.4     275     11.67  1.1%    47.8%     rec.arts.sf-lovers (1.6)
  25   372.9     130     11.65  1.1%    48.9%     comp.sys.att (1.4)

$ 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.