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Newsgroups: mod.newslists
Subject: Top 25 News Groups for the last 2 weeks
Message-ID: <1644@seismo.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 8-Mar-85 13:28:22 EST
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         No. of        $ Cost  % of  Cumulative
Rank  Kbytes Articles per Site Total  % of Total  Group (Articles/contributor)
   1   884.2      63     27.63 11.4%    11.4%     net.sources (1.8)
   2   415.5     268     12.98  5.4%    16.8%     net.politics (3.3)
   3   339.2     191     10.60  4.4%    21.1%     net.religion (2.8)
   4   333.1      27     10.41  4.3%    25.4%     net.sources.mac (1.9)
   5   206.4      10      6.45  2.7%    28.1%     net.sources.games (1.1)
   6   204.4     115      6.39  2.6%    30.7%     net.politics.theory (2.9)
   7   203.9     228      6.37  2.6%    33.4%     net.singles (1.9)
   8   200.0     233      6.25  2.6%    36.0%     net.flame (1.9)
   9   197.9     194      6.18  2.6%    38.5%     net.auto (1.8)
  10   177.8     104      5.55  2.3%    40.8%     net.religion.christian (2.4)
  11   167.0     148      5.22  2.2%    43.0%     net.audio (1.6)
  12   166.4     101      5.20  2.1%    45.1%     net.religion.jewish (2.2)
  13   150.3     269      4.70  1.9%    47.1%     net.sf-lovers (2.9)
  14   147.2     244      4.60  1.9%    49.0%     net.music (2.4)
  15   146.1     205      4.57  1.9%    50.8%     net.lang.c (2.6)
  16   145.7     125      4.55  1.9%    52.7%     net.micro.mac (1.6)
  17   145.7     239      4.55  1.9%    54.6%     net.unix-wizards (2.5)
  18   142.5     264      4.45  1.8%    56.4%     net.jokes (1.6)
  19   135.6     201      4.24  1.7%    58.2%     net.micro (3.2)
  20   132.5      76      4.14  1.7%    59.9%     net.news (1.9)
  21   127.8     210      3.99  1.6%    61.5%     net.unix (2.3)
  22   118.6      54      3.71  1.5%    63.1%     net.origins (1.8)
  23   112.6      86      3.52  1.5%    64.5%     net.arch (1.7)
  24   112.1      87      3.50  1.4%    66.0%     net.followup (1.6)
  25   107.4     104      3.36  1.4%    67.4%     net.movies (1.8)

$ 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.