Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!brl-adm!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!decwrl!reid From: reid@decwrl.UUCP (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups Subject: BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PROPAGATION (DEC 86) Message-ID: <7319@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: Thu, 1-Jan-87 11:11:56 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.7319 Posted: Thu Jan 1 11:11:56 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 1-Jan-87 22:17:24 EST Sender: reid@decwrl.DEC.COM Organization: DEC Western Research Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif., USA Lines: 34 Approved: reid@decwrl.UUCP Xref: mnetor news.lists:29 news.groups:115 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