Xref: utzoo news.lists:642 news.groups:6398 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!purdue!decwrl!reid From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups Subject: BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PROPAGATION (NOV 88) Message-ID: <16540@decwrl.dec.com> Date: 1 Dec 88 11:52:53 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 366 3000 202 39% 22 42.5 5% 0.01 0.8% bionet.general 367 2200 148 39% 8 12.7 0% 0.00 0.6% bionet.jobs 368 880 60 39% 11 6.9 0% 0.01 0.2% bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts 369 840 57 39% 5 4.8 0% 0.00 0.2% bionet.molbio.proteins 370 7500 511 38% 442 599.4 6% 0.06 2.1% rec.music.cd 371 2100 141 38% 4 3.9 0% 0.00 0.6% bionet.software.contrib 372 1300 90 38% 5 9.1 0% 0.00 0.4% bionet.molbio.evolution 373 1200 79 38% 3 6.1 0% 0.00 0.3% bionet.molbio.bio-matrix 374 1000 70 38% 2 0.9 0% 0.00 0.3% bionet.molbio.plant 375 850 58 38% 4 3.6 0% 0.00 0.2% bionet.molbio.news 376 750 51 37% 1 4.2 0% 0.00 0.2% bionet.molbio.genbank 377 570 39 37% 3 8.8 0% 0.01 0.2% bionet.software.pc 378 2400 162 34% 5 5.5 0% 0.00 0.7% gnu.ghostscript.bug 379 410 28 28% 2 12.2 0% 0.02 0.1% bionet.molbio.swiss-prot 380 350 24 20% 2 4.0 0% 0.00 0.1% bionet.technology.conversion 381 2300 159 11% 4 25.1 0% 0.00 0.6% comp.lang.sigplan 382 850 58 6% 45 99.9 17% 0.01 0.2% alt.prose 383 150 10 1% 20 116.2 0% 0.02 0.0% unix-pc.sources 384 120 8 1% 155 249.6 37% 0.04 0.0% unix-pc.general 385 88 6 1% 4 20.5 50% 0.00 0.0% unix-pc.bugs