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The following list ranks newsgroups by number of kilobytes posted, not the number of articles. Digitized pictures and sounds use much more bandwidth than basic text messages, so it's not surprising that numerous newsgroups featuring pictures top the list. During this two week sample, erotica, politics, and sound effects were prominent.
No. of $ Cost % of Cumulative Rank Kbytes Articles per Site Total % of Total Group 1 82465.2 2369 217.62 6.6% 6.6% alt.binaries.pictures.erotica 2 43757.3 1402 115.47 3.5% 10.1% alt.binaries.pictures.misc 3 26838.1 552 70.82 2.1% 12.2% alt.binaries.sounds.misc 4 19887.1 541 52.48 1.6% 13.8% news.answers 5 18882.2 478 49.83 1.5% 15.3% alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.male 6 16203.2 403 42.76 1.3% 16.6% de.alt.binaries.pictures.relay-party 7 15739.7 765 41.54 1.3% 17.9% alt.binaries.pictures.supermodels 8 11900.2 236 31.40 1.0% 18.8% alt.binaries.sounds.movies 9 10786.6 429 28.46 0.9% 19.7% alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.orientals 10 9357.1 369 24.69 0.7% 20.4% alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.female 11 9160.6 199 24.17 0.7% 21.2% alt.binaries.pictures.fractals 12 8597.6 3722 22.69 0.7% 21.9% talk.politics.misc 13 7784.2 4383 20.54 0.6% 22.5% cbd.procurements 14 7680.7 732 20.27 0.6% 23.1% alt.binaries.pictures.utilities 15 7652.5 248 20.19 0.6% 23.7% alt.binaries.pictures.tasteless 16 7624.3 190 20.12 0.6% 24.3% comp.answers 17 7398.5 285 19.52 0.6% 24.9% alt.binaries.pictures 18 7155.4 189 18.88 0.6% 25.5% rec.answers 19 7098.0 3078 18.73 0.6% 26.0% alt.fan.rush-limbaugh 20 6684.4 3592 17.64 0.5% 26.6% talk.politics.guns 21 6056.4 165 15.98 0.5% 27.1% alt.sex.pictures 22 5991.6 4229 15.81 0.5% 27.5% ncar.weather 23 5931.0 518 15.65 0.5% 28.0% alt.sex.stories 24 5824.5 133 15.37 0.5% 28.5% de.alt.binaries.pictures.female 25 5138.0 1975 13.56 0.4% 28.9% soc.culture.indian