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Subject: Top 25 News Groups for the last 2 weeks
Message-ID: <742@seismo.CSS.GOV>
Date: Fri, 8-Nov-85 22:58:30 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  8 22:58:30 1985
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Organization: Center for Seismic Studies, Arlington, VA
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         No. of        $ Cost  % of  Cumulative
Rank  Kbytes Articles per Site Total  % of Total  Group (Articles/contributor)
   1   588.2     433     18.38  6.0%     6.0%     net.news.group (2.1)
   2   414.8     239     12.96  4.2%    10.2%     net.politics (2.7)
   3   391.4      99     12.23  4.0%    14.2%     net.sources (1.5)
   4   380.2     359     11.88  3.9%    18.0%     net.music (3.9)
   5   380.1     165     11.88  3.9%    21.9%     net.philosophy (3.8)
   6   333.4     220     10.42  3.4%    25.3%     net.flame (1.9)
   7   310.4     132      9.70  3.2%    28.4%     net.religion (4.3)
   8   301.7      34      9.43  3.1%    31.5%     net.sources.mac (1.9)
   9   283.1     221      8.85  2.9%    34.4%     net.micro.mac (1.6)
  10   253.3     168      7.92  2.6%    37.0%     net.news (3.9)
  11   252.5      74      7.89  2.6%    39.5%     net.origins (2.7)
  12   238.3     118      7.45  2.4%    41.9%     net.religion.christian (3.1)
  13   234.0     237      7.31  2.4%    44.3%     net.movies (1.9)
  14   233.6     183      7.30  2.4%    46.7%     net.women (2.2)
  15   222.5      80      6.95  2.3%    48.9%     net.politics.theory (3.2)
  16   192.3     180      6.01  2.0%    50.9%     net.micro.amiga (2.6)
  17   185.8     303      5.81  1.9%    52.8%     net.sf-lovers (2.9)
  18   183.2     121      5.72  1.9%    54.7%     net.micro.pc (1.6)
  19   181.9     172      5.69  1.8%    56.5%     net.audio (2.2)
  20   178.3     237      5.57  1.8%    58.3%     net.unix-wizards (2.1)
  21   167.9     166      5.25  1.7%    60.0%     net.lang.c (2.4)
  22   153.4     194      4.79  1.6%    61.6%     net.unix (2.6)
  23   151.0     190      4.72  1.5%    63.1%     net.cooks (2.0)
  24   146.5     118      4.58  1.5%    64.6%     net.arch (1.6)
  25   145.5     250      4.55  1.5%    66.1%     net.jokes (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.