newsstats@uunet.UU.NET Top 25 News Groups for the last 2 weeks 25 May 1994 09:54:48 -0400 UUNET Communications Newsgroups: news.lists No. of $ Cost % of Cumulative Rank Kbytes Articles per Site Total % of Total Group (Articles/contributor) 1 142401.7 3494 375.78 7.8% 7.8% alt.binaries.pictures.erotica (4.0) 2 55278.7 1430 145.87 3.0% 10.8% alt.binaries.pictures.misc (3.7) 3 48583.5 914 128.21 2.7% 13.5% alt.binaries.sounds.misc (4.8) 4 27675.5 756 73.03 1.5% 15.0% alt.binaries.pictures.supermodels (2.8) 5 26893.4 611 70.97 1.5% 16.5% alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.orientals (7.6) 6 22515.7 892 59.42 1.2% 17.7% alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.male (8.5) 7 21539.2 686 56.84 1.2% 18.9% news.answers (1.0) 8 19616.0 301 51.76 1.1% 20.0% de.alt.binaries.pictures.natur (16.7) 9 19082.2 455 50.36 1.0% 21.0% alt.binaries.pictures (2.7) 10 18841.5 378 49.72 1.0% 22.1% alt.binaries.sounds.movies (10.2) 11 15982.5 6762 42.18 0.9% 22.9% ncar.weather (6762.0) 12 12996.2 309 34.30 0.7% 23.6% alt.binaries.sounds.tv (4.4) 13 12855.6 4123 33.92 0.7% 24.3% alt.test (2.0) 14 12679.4 687 33.46 0.7% 25.0% de.alt.binaries.pictures.female (38.2) 15 11763.7 409 31.04 0.6% 25.7% alt.binaries.sounds.*ods (2.5) 16 11524.0 659 30.41 0.6% 26.3% alt.binaries.pictures.utilities (2.1) 17 11334.2 940 29.91 0.6% 26.9% alt.sex.stories (2.4) 18 10667.3 276 28.15 0.6% 27.5% alt.binaries.pictures.anime (2.7) 19 9423.3 243 24.87 0.5% 28.0% comp.answers (1.0) 20 8935.0 4571 23.58 0.5% 28.5% talk.politics.guns (4.8) 21 8802.4 3563 23.23 0.5% 29.0% alt.politics.clinton (5.2) 22 8693.9 192 22.94 0.5% 29.5% alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female (3.5) 23 8614.4 4165 22.73 0.5% 30.0% rec.games.deckmaster (4.3) 24 8283.1 3879 21.86 0.5% 30.4% alt.fan.rush-limbaugh (5.2) 25 8109.8 276 21.40 0.4% 30.9% alt.sex.pictures (4.2) $ Cost is the cost of sending it over a Trailblazer to UUNET, using the 800 number and Night rates. (1000 characters per second and $9.50 per hour) I.e .264 cents per kilobyte