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Subject: BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PROPAGATION (DEC 86)
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BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PROPAGATION
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  1100    94   73%    18   23.3    16   0.09    0.8%  rec.sport.baseball
194  1100    93   73%    52   99.8    48   0.36    0.8%  rec.arts.tv.soaps
195  1100    90   73%    12   15.3    11   0.06    0.8%  rec.arts.poems
196   810    68   73%    15   18.6    19   0.09    0.6%  rec.birds
197  2100   175   72%    45   76.8    21   0.15    1.5%  rec.bicycles
198  2000   171   72%    57   70.4    28   0.14    1.4%  rec.food.drink
199  1900   160   72%   124  241.8    65   0.51    1.3%  rec.sport.football
200  1600   135   72%     4    5.6     2   0.01    1.1%  rec.food.veg
201  1300   111   72%    34   50.1    26   0.15    0.9%  rec.sport.basketball
202  1300   110   72%    20   30.4    15   0.09    0.9%  rec.arts.wobegon
203  1200   102   72%    32   52.6    27   0.18    0.9%  rec.woodworking
204  1100    92   72%    11   11.9    10   0.04    0.8%  rec.sport.hockey
205  1500   129   71%    14   16.3     9   0.04    1.1%  rec.gardens
206  1200   100   71%    31   39.7    26   0.13    0.8%  rec.railroad
207  1100    91   71%    14   29.8    12   0.11    0.8%  rec.boats
208  1000    88   71%    20   40.4    20   0.16    0.7%  rec.scuba
209   870    73   68%    12   21.2    14   0.10    0.6%  rec.skydiving
210  3800   317   58%    15  329.3     4   0.35    2.7%  news.lists
211   890    75   34%     1    5.0     1   0.02    0.6%  comp.sources.bugs
212   870    73   33%     1    1.0     1   0.00    0.6%  comp.sources.games