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Subject: Top 25 News Groups for the last 2 weeks
Message-ID: <2731@seismo.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 07:46:29 EDT
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         No. of        $ Cost  % of  Cumulative
Rank  Kbytes Articles per Site Total  % of Total  Group (Articles/contributor)
   1   915.9      69     28.62 11.1%    11.1%     net.sources (1.5)
   2   555.0     268     17.34  6.7%    17.8%     net.women (2.3)
   3   547.2      30     17.10  6.6%    24.4%     net.sources.mac (1.4)
   4   510.7     307     15.96  6.2%    30.6%     net.politics (3.1)
   5   385.9     316     12.06  4.7%    35.3%     net.flame (2.0)
   6   288.6     206      9.02  3.5%    38.8%     net.movies (2.4)
   7   284.4     234      8.89  3.4%    42.2%     net.singles (2.2)
   8   255.9     298      8.00  3.1%    45.3%     net.sf-lovers (2.7)
   9   215.3      78      6.73  2.6%    47.9%     net.origins (2.6)
  10   182.6     201      5.71  2.2%    50.1%     net.music (2.8)
  11   181.6     127      5.67  2.2%    52.3%     net.news (2.0)
  12   178.1     110      5.57  2.2%    54.5%     net.politics.theory (6.1)
  13   171.6     142      5.36  2.1%    56.5%     net.micro.pc (1.6)
  14   170.6      87      5.33  2.1%    58.6%     net.social (1.5)
  15   140.6     151      4.40  1.7%    60.3%     net.auto (1.6)
  16   138.9     147      4.34  1.7%    62.0%     net.micro.mac (1.7)
  17   136.7     133      4.27  1.7%    63.6%     net.unix-wizards (1.3)
  18   129.7     213      4.05  1.6%    65.2%     net.jokes (1.6)
  19   125.1      92      3.91  1.5%    66.7%     net.nlang (1.8)
  20   114.5      16      3.58  1.4%    68.1%     net.sources.games (1.2)
  21   110.7      31      3.46  1.3%    69.4%     net.micro.atari (1.8)
  22   108.8      52      3.40  1.3%    70.8%     net.news.group (1.5)
  23   105.8      41      3.31  1.3%    72.0%     net.religion (2.0)
  24    99.8      91      3.12  1.2%    73.2%     net.micro (1.9)
  25    95.7      48      2.99  1.2%    74.4%     net.philosophy (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.