Xref: utzoo news.lists:509 news.groups:4204 Path: utzoo!attcan2!uunet!husc6!purdue!decwrl!reid From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups Subject: BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PROPAGATION (MAY 88) Message-ID: <13155@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: 1 Jun 88 20:14:31 GMT Sender: reid@decwrl.DEC.COM Organization: DEC Western Research Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif., USA Lines: 34 Approved: reid@decwrl.dec.com 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) | | | | | +-- Crossposting percentage | | | | | | +-- Cost ratio: $US/month/reader | | | | | | | +-- Share: % of newsreaders | | | | | | | | who read this group. V V V V V V V V 325 1600 150 55% 2 1.6 0% 0.00 0.7% comp.terminals.bitgraph 326 1300 119 55% 2 4.5 100% 0.00 0.6% comp.theory.self-org-sys 327 980 90 55% 10 19.3 10% 0.02 0.4% soc.culture.esperanto 328 710 65 55% 3 2.7 0% 0.00 0.3% comp.dcom.lans.hyperchannel 329 2200 198 54% 1 0.9 0% 0.00 0.9% comp.lsi.cad 330 1400 129 54% 2 11.9 0% 0.01 0.6% comp.lang.lisp.x 331 870 80 54% 24 39.7 0% 0.05 0.4% comp.sys.ti.explorer 332 730 67 54% 3 5.4 0% 0.01 0.3% comp.lang.clu 333 590 54 54% 1 3.5 100% 0.01 0.3% comp.protocols.pcnet 334 410 38 54% 1 0.6 0% 0.00 0.2% comp.sys.northstar 335 340 31 54% 1 0.9 100% 0.00 0.1% rec.games.vectrex 336 350 32 53% 1 2.9 100% 0.01 0.2% comp.lang.forth.mac 337 260 24 53% 1 82.7 0% 0.32 0.1% rec.mag.fsfnet 338 2500 227 50% 30 77.6 4% 0.03 1.1% alt.individualism 339 1200 114 50% 36 70.0 3% 0.06 0.5% comp.lang.asm370 340 4800 440 49% 11 36.6 0% 0.01 2.1% sci.nanotech 341 1200 110 36% 19 30.2 0% 0.02 0.5% comp.protocols.iso.x400 342 3100 288 34% 277 493.2 0% 0.11 1.4% alt.sca 343 800 74 13% 68 120.3 3% 0.04 0.4% rec.autos.sport 344 470 43 13% 24 40.4 0% 0.02 0.2% rec.folk-dancing