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Subject: Top 25 News Groups for the last 2 weeks
Message-ID: <2932@seismo.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 8-Aug-85 08:22:04 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  8 08:22:04 1985
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         No. of        $ Cost  % of  Cumulative
Rank  Kbytes Articles per Site Total  % of Total  Group (Articles/contributor)
   1   380.5      42     11.89  7.3%     7.3%     net.sources (1.3)
   2   314.7     268      9.83  6.0%    13.3%     net.bizarre (1.9)
   3   262.3     171      8.20  5.0%    18.3%     net.singles (2.0)
   4   217.6     143      6.80  4.2%    22.4%     net.politics (2.1)
   5   191.0     212      5.97  3.6%    26.1%     net.sf-lovers (3.7)
   6   189.2     123      5.91  3.6%    29.7%     net.micro.pc (1.7)
   7   168.7     153      5.27  3.2%    32.9%     net.micro (2.3)
   8   167.0      80      5.22  3.2%    36.1%     net.origins (2.8)
   9   163.0     146      5.09  3.1%    39.2%     net.unix-wizards (1.8)
  10   149.9      88      4.69  2.9%    42.1%     net.women (1.7)
  11   127.0      72      3.97  2.4%    44.5%     net.abortion (2.9)
  12   124.6      63      3.89  2.4%    46.9%     net.philosophy (3.5)
  13   118.9      15      3.72  2.3%    49.2%     net.sources.mac (1.3)
  14   111.3      41      3.48  2.1%    51.3%     net.religion.christian (1.8)
  15   109.8      53      3.43  2.1%    53.4%     net.mail (2.3)
  16   108.9     101      3.40  2.1%    55.5%     net.unix (1.7)
  17    96.8     146      3.02  1.8%    57.3%     net.jokes (1.4)
  18    94.6      44      2.96  1.8%    59.1%     net.religion (2.6)
  19    90.9      97      2.84  1.7%    60.9%     net.music (2.2)
  20    85.7      89      2.68  1.6%    62.5%     net.lang.c (1.6)
  21    81.2      96      2.54  1.5%    64.0%     net.micro.mac (1.5)
  22    73.2      54      2.29  1.4%    65.4%     net.audio (1.4)
  23    73.0      65      2.28  1.4%    66.8%     net.micro.att (1.9)
  24    72.1      44      2.25  1.4%    68.2%     net.arch (1.2)
  25    71.5      59      2.23  1.4%    69.6%     net.legal (1.3)

$ 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.