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Subject: BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY (MAY 88)
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Date: 1 Jun 88 20:14:07 GMT
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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)
       |     |     |      |     |      +-- Crossposting percentage
       |     |     |      |     |      |    +-- Cost ratio: $US/month/reader
       |     |     |      |     |      |    |       +-- Share: % of newsreaders
       |     |     |      |     |      |    |       |   who read this group.
       V     V     V      V     V      V    V       V
325  1200   114   86%    25   37.2    13%  0.05    0.5%  rec.equestrian
326  1200   114   50%    36   70.0     3%  0.06    0.5%  comp.lang.asm370
327  1200   110   36%    19   30.2     0%  0.02    0.5%  comp.protocols.iso.x400
328  1100   105   57%     2    3.1     0%  0.00    0.5%  comp.lang.rexx
329  1000    92   93%     4   84.7     0%  0.15    0.4%  soc.politics.arms-d
330   980    90   55%    10   19.3    10%  0.02    0.4%  soc.culture.esperanto
331   970    89   96%     1    1.9     0%  0.00    0.4%  comp.os.eunice
332   950    87   56%     4    6.2     0%  0.01    0.4%  comp.terminals.tty5620
333   940    86   92%     2    4.8     0%  0.01    0.4%  comp.sys.tahoe
334   910    84   92%     2    1.9    50%  0.00    0.4%  comp.sys.celerity
335   870    80   54%    24   39.7     0%  0.05    0.4%  comp.sys.ti.explorer
336   800    74   13%    68  120.3     3%  0.04    0.4%  rec.autos.sport
337   730    67   54%     3    5.4     0%  0.01    0.3%  comp.lang.clu
338   710    65   55%     3    2.7     0%  0.00    0.3%  comp.dcom.lans.hyperchannel
339   590    54   54%     1    3.5   100%  0.01    0.3%  comp.protocols.pcnet
340   470    43   13%    24   40.4     0%  0.02    0.2%  rec.folk-dancing
341   410    38   54%     1    0.6     0%  0.00    0.2%  comp.sys.northstar
342   350    32   53%     1    2.9   100%  0.01    0.2%  comp.lang.forth.mac
343   340    31   54%     1    0.9   100%  0.00    0.1%  rec.games.vectrex
344   260    24   53%     1   82.7     0%  0.32    0.1%  rec.mag.fsfnet