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Subject: Top 25 News Groups for the last 2 weeks
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Date: Mon, 29-Dec-86 19:32:56 EST
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         No. of        $ Cost  % of  Cumulative
Rank  Kbytes Articles per Site Total  % of Total  Group (Articles/contributor)
   1  1304.1      35     40.75  8.5%     8.5%     mod.mac.binaries (1.0)
   2  1276.3     377     39.89  8.3%    16.7%     comp.sys.amiga (1.0)
   3   822.6     459     25.71  5.3%    22.1%     soc.singles (1.0)
   4   762.5     160     23.83  4.9%    27.0%     comp.sys.atari.st (1.0)
   5   649.0     206     20.28  4.2%    31.2%     talk.religion.misc (1.0)
   6   568.8      22     17.78  3.7%    34.9%     net.sources.games (1.0)
   7   473.0      43     14.78  3.1%    38.0%     net.sources (1.0)
   8   449.8     165     14.06  2.9%    40.9%     rec.arts.comics (1.0)
   9   429.0     201     13.41  2.8%    43.7%     talk.politics.misc (1.0)
  10   347.6     114     10.86  2.3%    45.9%     talk.abortion (1.0)
  11   340.6     188     10.64  2.2%    48.1%     rec.arts.sf-lovers (1.0)
  12   334.5     135     10.45  2.2%    50.3%     soc.motss (1.0)
  13   331.7     259     10.36  2.1%    52.4%     rec.arts.startrek (1.0)
  14   319.0     100      9.97  2.1%    54.5%     soc.culture.indian (1.0)
  15   274.5     201      8.58  1.8%    56.3%     comp.sys.ibm.pc (1.0)
  16   250.3     114      7.82  1.6%    57.9%     soc.culture.jewish (1.0)
  17   245.2     187      7.66  1.6%    59.5%     rec.arts.movies (1.0)
  18   236.2      77      7.38  1.5%    61.0%     talk.origins (1.0)
  19   217.1      94      6.79  1.4%    62.4%     comp.sys.apple (1.1)
  20   214.9     124      6.72  1.4%    63.8%     soc.women (1.0)
  21   208.2      92      6.50  1.3%    65.2%     mod.music.gaffa (46.0)
  22   206.5       8      6.45  1.3%    66.5%     mod.map (1.0)
  23   190.2     147      5.94  1.2%    67.7%     comp.lang.c (1.0)
  24   179.7       8      5.61  1.2%    68.9%     mod.mac (2.0)
  25   178.2     154      5.57  1.2%    70.1%     misc.consumers (1.0)

$ 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.