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Subject: BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY (DEC 86)
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BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY
A companion posting explains the statistics and the algorithms that produced
them.

       +-- Estimated total number of people who read the group, worldwide.
       |     +-- Actual number of readers in sampled population
       |     |     +-- Propagation: how many sites receive this group at all
       |     |     |      +-- Recent traffic (messages per month)
       |     |     |      |     +-- Recent traffic (kilobytes per month)
       |     |     |      |     |      +-- Participation ratio
       |     |     |      |     |      |    +-- Cost ratio: $US/month/reader
       |     |     |      |     |      |    |       +-- Share: % of newsreaders
       |     |     |      |     |      |    |       |   who read this group.
       V     V     V      V     V      V    V       V
193  1200    99   87%     1    1.4     1   0.00    0.8%  soc.roots
194  1200    99   74%    28   37.4    23   0.13    0.8%  rec.games.empire
195  1200    97   88%     8    9.6     7   0.03    0.8%  comp.os.eunice
196  1100    94   73%    18   23.3    16   0.09    0.8%  rec.sport.baseball
197  1100    93   73%    52   99.8    48   0.36    0.8%  rec.arts.tv.soaps
198  1100    92   72%    11   11.9    10   0.04    0.8%  rec.sport.hockey
199  1100    91   71%    14   29.8    12   0.11    0.8%  rec.boats
200  1100    90   73%    12   15.3    11   0.06    0.8%  rec.arts.poems
201  1100    89   75%    14   18.9    12   0.07    0.7%  rec.games.go
202  1000    88   71%    20   40.4    20   0.16    0.7%  rec.scuba
203  1000    87   76%     5    9.4     5   0.04    0.7%  rec.games.pbm
204  1000    85   92%     4    5.6     4   0.02    0.7%  soc.culture.greek
205   980    82   76%    17   35.9    17   0.15    0.7%  rec.games.bridge
206   960    81   76%   144  186.6   150   0.78    0.7%  rec.music.gdead
207   950    80   74%    22  176.6    24   0.75    0.7%  rec.ham-radio.packet
208   890    75   34%     1    5.0     1   0.02    0.6%  comp.sources.bugs
209   870    73   68%    12   21.2    14   0.10    0.6%  rec.skydiving
210   870    73   33%     1    1.0     1   0.00    0.6%  comp.sources.games
211   810    68   73%    15   18.6    19   0.09    0.6%  rec.birds
212   770    65   88%     1    1.3     1   0.01    0.5%  comp.sys.ti