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Subject: Top 25 News Groups for the last 2 weeks
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Date: 22 Mar 88 11:34:46 GMT
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         No. of        $ Cost  % of  Cumulative
Rank  Kbytes Articles per Site Total  % of Total  Group (Articles/contributor)
   1  1749.4     180     54.67  4.1%     4.1%     comp.binaries.ibm.pc (1.6)
   2  1745.0     796     54.53  4.1%     8.2%     talk.politics.misc (4.5)
   3  1368.2     934     42.76  3.2%    11.4%     comp.sys.amiga (2.3)
   4  1080.2      78     33.76  2.5%    13.9%     comp.mail.maps (1.0)
   5   954.6     700     29.83  2.2%    16.1%     comp.sys.ibm.pc (1.5)
   6   889.0     702     27.78  2.1%    18.2%     comp.sys.mac (2.0)
   7   884.5     434     27.64  2.1%    20.3%     comp.sys.atari.st (1.9)
   8   874.7     502     27.33  2.0%    22.3%     soc.women (2.4)
   9   844.5     749     26.39  2.0%    24.3%     soc.singles (2.7)
  10   802.1     797     25.07  1.9%    26.2%     talk.bizarre (4.3)
  11   795.7      31     24.86  1.9%    28.0%     comp.binaries.mac (1.0)
  12   780.2     284     24.38  1.8%    29.8%     rec.games.frp (2.2)
  13   703.8     377     21.99  1.6%    31.5%     soc.culture.indian (2.1)
  14   631.0     260     19.72  1.5%    33.0%     talk.religion.misc (2.8)
  15   625.8     278     19.56  1.5%    34.4%     rec.music.gdead (2.1)
  16   620.5     552     19.39  1.4%    35.9%     comp.lang.c (1.7)
  17   601.8     281     18.81  1.4%    37.3%     talk.politics.mideast (3.4)
  18   574.9     483     17.96  1.3%    38.6%     rec.autos (1.9)
  19   564.6     106     17.64  1.3%    39.9%     comp.sys.atari.8bit (1.7)
  20   550.0     518     17.19  1.3%    41.2%     rec.music.misc (2.2)
  21   541.6      11     16.92  1.3%    42.5%     comp.sources.games (1.0)
  22   528.6     345     16.52  1.2%    43.7%     rec.arts.comics (2.3)
  23   484.6     377     15.14  1.1%    44.9%     rec.aviation (2.3)
  24   483.3     356     15.10  1.1%    46.0%     rec.arts.sf-lovers (1.5)
  25   475.7     370     14.86  1.1%    47.1%     comp.unix.wizards (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.