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From: newsstats@seismo.UUCP
Newsgroups: mod.newslists
Subject: Top 25 News Groups for the last 2 weeks
Message-ID: <6887@seismo.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 8-Jan-85 01:45:51 EST
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         No. of        $ Cost  % of  Cumulative
Rank  Kbytes Articles per Site Total  % of Total  Group (Articles/contributor)
   1  1135.1      71     35.47 24.1%    24.1%     net.sources (1.5)
   2   281.3     195      8.79  6.0%    30.0%     net.politics (2.1)
   3   185.0     160      5.78  3.9%    33.9%     net.singles (2.1)
   4   161.0      93      5.03  3.4%    37.4%     net.women (1.6)
   5   144.9     187      4.53  3.1%    40.4%     net.lang.c (2.8)
   6   138.5     183      4.33  2.9%    43.4%     net.unix-wizards (2.3)
   7   138.5     134      4.33  2.9%    46.3%     net.flame (1.6)
   8   130.3     131      4.07  2.8%    49.1%     net.jokes (1.9)
   9   122.5      19      3.83  2.6%    51.7%     net.mail (1.5)
  10   116.2      70      3.63  2.5%    54.1%     net.religion.jewish (2.3)
  11   115.7      84      3.61  2.5%    56.6%     net.movies (1.5)
  12   115.0      80      3.59  2.4%    59.0%     net.news (2.5)
  13   105.2      72      3.29  2.2%    61.2%     net.micro.mac (1.5)
  14   102.5      65      3.20  2.2%    63.4%     net.religion (2.2)
  15    95.7      85      2.99  2.0%    65.4%     net.legal (1.5)
  16    79.9     111      2.50  1.7%    67.1%     net.music (2.1)
  17    76.4      82      2.39  1.6%    68.7%     net.auto (1.7)
  18    73.9      58      2.31  1.6%    70.3%     net.books (1.5)
  19    72.9      57      2.28  1.5%    71.9%     net.misc (1.3)
  20    65.3      65      2.04  1.4%    73.2%     net.sf-lovers (1.4)
  21    59.4      27      1.86  1.3%    74.5%     net.sources.bugs (1.3)
  22    54.3      43      1.70  1.2%    75.7%     net.consumers (1.2)
  23    53.2      37      1.66  1.1%    76.8%     net.lang (2.3)
  24    50.9      39      1.59  1.1%    77.9%     net.comics (2.2)
  25    48.2      27      1.51  1.0%    78.9%     net.ham-radio (1.9)

$ 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.