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Subject: Top 25 News Groups for the last 2 weeks
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Date: 22 Dec 89 23:30:07 GMT
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         No. of        $ Cost  % of  Cumulative
Rank  Kbytes Articles per Site Total  % of Total  Group (Articles/contributor)
   1  2977.4     126      7.44  3.2%     3.2%     comp.mail.maps (1.0)
   2  1617.5     785      4.04  1.7%     4.9%     talk.politics.misc (3.1)
   3  1600.7    1215      4.00  1.7%     6.6%     comp.sys.mac (2.0)
   4  1575.8     636      3.94  1.7%     8.3%     soc.culture.china (2.5)
   5  1543.8      37      3.86  1.6%    10.0%     comp.sources.misc (1.0)
   6  1290.3    1032      3.23  1.4%    11.3%     comp.sys.ibm.pc (1.7)
   7  1274.4     796      3.19  1.4%    12.7%     alt.sex (2.6)
   8  1262.7    1010      3.16  1.3%    14.0%     comp.sys.amiga (2.0)
   9  1181.3     527      2.95  1.3%    15.3%     talk.religion.misc (4.7)
  10  1015.7     347      2.54  1.1%    16.4%     talk.abortion (6.0)
  11  1005.5     804      2.51  1.1%    17.5%     rec.arts.startrek (2.9)
  12   998.6     685      2.50  1.1%    18.5%     soc.culture.indian (2.0)
  13   997.2     696      2.49  1.1%    19.6%     rec.autos (2.4)
  14   995.2     101      2.49  1.1%    20.7%     comp.os.os2 (2.0)
  15   975.8     756      2.44  1.0%    21.7%     rec.sport.football (2.8)
  16   973.5     531      2.43  1.0%    22.7%     soc.women (2.9)
  17   970.9     475      2.43  1.0%    23.8%     rec.ham-radio (2.1)
  18   947.0     157      2.37  1.0%    24.8%     comp.lang.forth (2.8)
  19   932.4     762      2.33  1.0%    25.8%     rec.humor (1.8)
  20   925.3     306      2.31  1.0%    26.8%     clari.news.gov.international (1.0)
  21   909.6      73      2.27  1.0%    27.7%     alt.sources (1.4)
  22   860.3     679      2.15  0.9%    28.7%     alt.folklore.computers (1.9)
  23   854.0      25      2.13  0.9%    29.6%     comp.binaries.atari.st (1.0)
  24   822.1     666      2.06  0.9%    30.5%     rec.arts.tv (2.5)
  25   820.3     602      2.05  0.9%    31.3%     rec.sport.basketball (3.2)

$ Cost is the cost of sending it over a Trailblazer to UUNET, using the 
800 number and Night rates. (1000 characters per second and $9 per hour)
I.e .25 cents per kilobyte