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Subject: Top 25 News Groups for the last 2 weeks
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Date: 8 Apr 88 16:38:04 GMT
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         No. of        $ Cost  % of  Cumulative
Rank  Kbytes Articles per Site Total  % of Total  Group (Articles/contributor)
   1  2678.8     134     83.71  6.2%     6.2%     comp.binaries.ibm.pc (1.9)
   2  1973.8     160     61.68  4.5%    10.7%     comp.mail.maps (1.0)
   3  1570.0     723     49.06  3.6%    14.3%     talk.politics.misc (4.8)
   4  1456.8      30     45.52  3.3%    17.6%     comp.sources.unix (1.0)
   5  1189.3     817     37.17  2.7%    20.4%     comp.sys.amiga (2.3)
   6  1111.5    1096     34.73  2.6%    22.9%     talk.bizarre (4.7)
   7  1057.2     852     33.04  2.4%    25.3%     soc.singles (2.8)
   8   967.2     592     30.22  2.2%    27.6%     rec.arts.startrek (2.3)
   9   926.2     596     28.95  2.1%    29.7%     soc.women (2.8)
  10   925.1      34     28.91  2.1%    31.8%     comp.binaries.mac (1.0)
  11   810.6     565     25.33  1.9%    33.7%     rec.autos (2.2)
  12   781.2     670     24.41  1.8%    35.5%     comp.sys.ibm.pc (1.5)
  13   746.0     364     23.31  1.7%    37.2%     talk.politics.mideast (4.2)
  14   694.3     288     21.70  1.6%    38.8%     rec.games.frp (2.0)
  15   692.2     602     21.63  1.6%    40.4%     rec.music.misc (2.1)
  16   670.7     552     20.96  1.5%    41.9%     comp.sys.mac (1.6)
  17   660.6     495     20.64  1.5%    43.4%     comp.lang.c (2.6)
  18   652.8     395     20.40  1.5%    44.9%     comp.sys.atari.st (1.6)
  19   608.5     249     19.01  1.4%    46.3%     news.groups (2.1)
  20   600.4     208     18.76  1.4%    47.7%     talk.religion.misc (2.4)
  21   599.3     418     18.73  1.4%    49.1%     rec.arts.sf-lovers (1.7)
  22   559.2      10     17.48  1.3%    50.4%     comp.bugs.4bsd.ucb-fixes (1.0)
  23   532.5     414     16.64  1.2%    51.6%     comp.sys.apple (1.8)
  24   459.4      19     14.35  1.1%    52.6%     comp.binaries.atari.st (1.0)
  25   443.5     320     13.86  1.0%    53.7%     misc.consumers (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.