Xref: utzoo news.lists:508 news.groups:4203 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 POPULARITY (MAY 88) Message-ID: <13154@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: 1 Jun 88 20:14:07 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 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