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From: newsstats@uunet.UU.NET
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Subject: Top 25 News Groups for the last 2 weeks
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Date: 8 Mar 88 11:34:47 GMT
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         No. of        $ Cost  % of  Cumulative
Rank  Kbytes Articles per Site Total  % of Total  Group (Articles/contributor)
   1  1936.2      84     60.51  5.0%     5.0%     comp.binaries.ibm.pc (1.8)
   2  1605.1      95     50.16  4.1%     9.1%     comp.mail.maps (95.0)
   3  1538.5     683     48.08  3.9%    13.0%     talk.politics.misc (4.2)
   4  1142.1      26     35.69  2.9%    15.9%     comp.sources.unix (26.0)
   5  1113.6    1047     34.80  2.8%    18.8%     talk.bizarre (5.5)
   6  1057.2     771     33.04  2.7%    21.5%     comp.sys.amiga (2.4)
   7   926.0     685     28.94  2.4%    23.8%     comp.sys.ibm.pc (1.6)
   8   892.8     384     27.90  2.3%    26.1%     comp.sys.atari.st (1.9)
   9   795.0     439     24.84  2.0%    28.2%     rec.arts.startrek (2.1)
  10   788.2     454     24.63  2.0%    30.2%     rec.arts.sf-lovers (1.8)
  11   764.6     381     23.90  2.0%    32.1%     talk.religion.misc (2.9)
  12   753.1     609     23.53  1.9%    34.1%     comp.sys.mac (1.9)
  13   747.1     447     23.35  1.9%    36.0%     soc.women (2.4)
  14   623.0     184     19.47  1.6%    37.6%     rec.games.frp (1.8)
  15   612.3     575     19.13  1.6%    39.1%     soc.singles (2.2)
  16   525.8     219     16.43  1.3%    40.5%     soc.culture.china (2.5)
  17   514.8     285     16.09  1.3%    41.8%     comp.arch (2.0)
  18   503.1     417     15.72  1.3%    43.1%     rec.music.misc (1.9)
  19   486.2     375     15.19  1.2%    44.3%     comp.lang.c (2.2)
  20   451.5     217     14.11  1.2%    45.5%     talk.politics.mideast (3.1)
  21   448.7      13     14.02  1.1%    46.6%     comp.sources.amiga (6.5)
  22   444.6     231     13.89  1.1%    47.8%     rec.arts.comics (2.7)
  23   401.2     212     12.54  1.0%    48.8%     news.groups (1.5)
  24   377.7     154     11.80  1.0%    49.8%     rec.ham-radio (1.7)
  25   369.1     187     11.53  0.9%    50.7%     rec.games.moria (2.7)

$ 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.