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Subject: TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY AMOUNT OF CROSSPOSTING (MAY 88)
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Date: 1 Jun 88 20:13:40 GMT
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TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY AMOUNT OF CROSSPOSTING
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
  1  8100   741   97%     3    3.0   100%  0.00    3.6%  comp.os.misc
  2  1300   119   55%     2    4.5   100%  0.00    0.6%  comp.theory.self-org-sys
  3   590    54   54%     1    3.5   100%  0.01    0.3%  comp.protocols.pcnet
  4   350    32   53%     1    2.9   100%  0.01    0.2%  comp.lang.forth.mac
  5   340    31   54%     1    0.9   100%  0.00    0.1%  rec.games.vectrex
  6  8500   785   98%    35  351.0    85%  0.08    3.8%  news.lists
  7  2000   181   75%    27   74.1    77%  0.05    0.9%  talk.politics.soviet
  8  8100   743   91%   309  748.0    72%  0.16    3.6%  misc.headlines
  9  7000   646   99%     7   13.1    71%  0.00    3.1%  comp.cog-eng
 10 21000  1894   99%   169  371.5    57%  0.03    9.1%  comp.sources.d
 11  4400   403   94%   190  473.7    51%  0.19    1.9%  soc.culture.jewish
 12  4300   392   58%     6   14.8    50%  0.00    1.9%  comp.music
 13  3100   282   59%    21   45.4    50%  0.02    1.4%  alt.hypertext
 14  2300   215   57%     8   13.9    50%  0.01    1.0%  comp.sys.handhelds
 15   910    84   92%     2    1.9    50%  0.00    0.4%  comp.sys.celerity
 16  8400   774   97%    21   40.4    45%  0.01    3.7%  comp.edu
 17 17000  1533   99%   140  161.2    44%  0.02    7.4%  misc.wanted
 18  9200   847   91%   380  828.9    44%  0.16    4.1%  misc.legal
 19  5700   528   90%    19   56.9    44%  0.02    2.5%  rec.misc
 20  3200   291   95%     9   17.3    44%  0.01    1.4%  rec.games.trivia
 21 11000   975   99%    45   88.9    43%  0.02    4.7%  comp.mail.uucp
 22  4500   413   98%     7   13.9    43%  0.01    2.0%  comp.org.decus
 23  3000   276   89%     7    9.5    43%  0.01    1.3%  rec.skiing
 24  9100   838   99%    21   49.8    40%  0.01    4.0%  news.sysadmin
 25 19000  1792   91%   219  252.8    39%  0.02    8.6%  misc.forsale
 26  9900   913   97%    73  110.5    38%  0.02    4.4%  comp.periphs
 27  9000   826   96%   131  204.0    36%  0.04    4.0%  sci.astro
 28  6500   601   86%   880 2303.8    36%  0.58    2.9%  talk.politics.misc
 29  9700   890   99%    18   19.5    35%  0.00    4.3%  news.config
 30 16000  1494   97%   174  310.3    34%  0.04    7.2%  comp.misc
 31 11000  1034   99%   121  205.6    34%  0.04    5.0%  comp.dcom.lans
 32  8400   768   98%   175  380.8    34%  0.08    3.7%  comp.unix.xenix
 33 16000  1440   91%   357  654.4    33%  0.07    6.9%  misc.consumers
 34 12000  1061   90%   771 1390.2    33%  0.20    5.1%  rec.autos
 35  6600   611   98%    16   28.8    33%  0.01    2.9%  comp.protocols.misc
 36  2600   243   58%     3   12.9    33%  0.01    1.2%  comp.ai.edu
 37  2100   197   59%     3    3.3    33%  0.00    0.9%  sci.math.num-analysis
 38 13000  1178   97%    58   89.5    31%  0.01    5.7%  misc.misc
 39  6700   615   98%    51   85.9    31%  0.02    3.0%  sci.bio
 40  5400   497   57%   132  195.6    31%  0.04    2.4%  alt.flame