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Subject: Top 25 News Groups for the last 2 weeks
Message-ID: <35@seismo.CSS.GOV>
Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 16:35:43 EDT
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         No. of        $ Cost  % of  Cumulative
Rank  Kbytes Articles per Site Total  % of Total  Group (Articles/contributor)
   1  1187.2      74     37.10 10.5%    10.5%     net.sources (1.6)
   2   589.5     202     18.42  5.2%    15.6%     net.philosophy (5.9)
   3   516.5      19     16.14  4.5%    20.2%     net.sources.mac (1.6)
   4   488.2     348     15.26  4.3%    24.5%     net.singles (2.9)
   5   440.8     267     13.78  3.9%    28.4%     net.politics (2.7)
   6   390.8     165     12.21  3.4%    31.8%     net.abortion (3.2)
   7   344.7     471     10.77  3.0%    34.8%     net.bizarre (2.3)
   8   331.7     226     10.37  2.9%    37.8%     net.women (2.1)
   9   318.0     136      9.94  2.8%    40.6%     net.origins (3.0)
  10   301.1     384      9.41  2.7%    43.2%     net.sf-lovers (3.4)
  11   262.9     267      8.22  2.3%    45.5%     net.unix-wizards (2.1)
  12   252.2     106      7.88  2.2%    47.8%     net.tv.drwho (2.7)
  13   245.2     118      7.66  2.2%    49.9%     net.religion (2.4)
  14   244.9      89      7.65  2.2%    52.1%     net.religion.christian (2.2)
  15   240.0     204      7.50  2.1%    54.2%     net.micro.pc (1.6)
  16   235.8     249      7.37  2.1%    56.3%     net.auto (1.8)
  17   221.2      25      6.91  1.9%    58.2%     net.sources.games (1.9)
  18   215.4     231      6.73  1.9%    60.1%     net.med (2.5)
  19   210.5     265      6.58  1.9%    62.0%     net.micro (2.9)
  20   184.9     237      5.78  1.6%    63.6%     net.music (2.6)
  21   175.1     170      5.47  1.5%    65.1%     net.flame (1.8)
  22   166.9     210      5.22  1.5%    66.6%     net.lang.c (2.2)
  23   166.6      62      5.20  1.5%    68.1%     net.mail (1.6)
  24   163.4     246      5.11  1.4%    69.5%     net.jokes (1.6)
  25   161.0     164      5.03  1.4%    70.9%     net.legal (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.