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From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid)
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Subject: TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PER-READER COST (NOV 88)
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Date: 1 Dec 88 11:52:35 GMT
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TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PER-READER COST
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  3600   246   79%   883 2306.8    13%  0.93    1.0%  talk.politics.mideast
  2 11000   747   85%  2127 5358.4    23%  0.76    3.0%  talk.politics.misc
  3  7400   502   89%   166 2712.7     0%  0.60    2.0%  comp.mail.maps
  4  8300   561   93%   773 2348.0     0%  0.49    2.3%  rec.games.frp
  5  7000   478   87%   969 1956.3     0%  0.45    1.9%  rec.arts.comics
  6  8300   561   90%   971 2161.7     3%  0.43    2.3%  soc.culture.china
  7  6100   413   93%   551 1326.4    19%  0.37    1.7%  soc.culture.jewish
  8  4900   330   84%   424 1119.0     8%  0.36    1.3%  talk.religion.misc
  9  3400   233   94%    88  679.3     1%  0.35    0.9%  comp.sys.sgi
 10 10000   704   98%   750 1832.1     4%  0.33    2.8%  comp.os.vms
 11  9800   664   86%   966 2072.3     7%  0.33    2.7%  soc.motss
 12  4600   310   86%   488  892.5     1%  0.31    1.2%  rec.motorcycles
 13  2500   169   86%   155  484.5     1%  0.31    0.7%  rec.railroad
 14  3100   213   95%    87  537.7     0%  0.30    0.9%  rec.music.gaffa
 15 11000   725   98%   363 1732.7     4%  0.28    2.9%  comp.os.minix
 16  3100   208   85%   281  554.9     8%  0.28    0.8%  talk.abortion
 17 17000  1130   94%  1615 2698.9     8%  0.27    4.5%  rec.music.misc
 18  9400   636   93%   657 1473.3     1%  0.27    2.6%  soc.culture.indian
 19  3700   252   84%   246  603.4     3%  0.25    1.0%  talk.origins
 20 10000   686   85%   621 1512.9    22%  0.24    2.8%  soc.men
 21  7700   522   88%   498 1044.4     1%  0.22    2.1%  rec.aviation
 22  4800   329   86%   394  679.7     0%  0.22    1.3%  rec.sport.basketball
 23  2300   157   62%   218  430.2     1%  0.21    0.6%  alt.sca
 24 18000  1233   87%  1087 2202.6     2%  0.20    5.0%  rec.arts.startrek
 25 18000  1197   96%  1190 2039.1     5%  0.20    4.8%  comp.sys.amiga
 26  7400   505   85%   488  933.7     0%  0.20    2.0%  rec.sport.football
 27  3700   250   85%   221  473.5     0%  0.20    1.0%  rec.sport.hockey
 28  3400   233   98%   155  387.7     0%  0.20    0.9%  comp.sys.nsc.32k
 29 11000   726   87%   491 1315.2    61%  0.19    2.9%  misc.headlines
 30  8800   597   95%   576  952.9     2%  0.19    2.4%  rec.music.classical
 31  6200   420   93%   475  686.3     3%  0.19    1.7%  rec.music.gdead
 32 21000  1446   86%  1541 2375.5     4%  0.18    5.8%  soc.singles
 33 11000   733   80%  1242 1355.3     3%  0.18    2.9%  talk.bizarre
 34  4100   278   86%   356  467.0     4%  0.18    1.1%  rec.arts.poems
 35  2800   193   86%    87  325.2     0%  0.18    0.8%  misc.handicap
 36  2700   181   93%   105  290.1     3%  0.18    0.7%  soc.culture.greek
 37 15000  1028   86%   911 1580.3    27%  0.17    4.1%  rec.autos
 38 15000  1000   94%   837 1445.7     1%  0.17    4.0%  rec.arts.sf-lovers
 39 14000   966   96%   604 1326.2    14%  0.17    3.9%  sci.space
 40  5300   359   91%   289  533.6     7%  0.17    1.4%  rec.music.beatles