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From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid)
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Subject: TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY AMOUNT OF CROSSPOSTING (NOV 88)
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Date: 1 Dec 88 11:52:39 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  3800   258   98%     1    0.9   100%  0.00    1.0%  comp.std.misc
  2 21000  1415   99%     3   10.9    67%  0.00    5.7%  news.announce.important
  3  4800   329   93%     3    4.4    67%  0.00    1.3%  soc.culture.misc
  4 22000  1508   98%   213  373.4    61%  0.03    6.1%  news.misc
  5 11000   726   87%   491 1315.2    61%  0.19    2.9%  misc.headlines
  6  3600   241   77%     5   13.9    60%  0.01    1.0%  comp.theory.dynamic-sys
  7  3300   221   60%     5    7.5    60%  0.00    0.9%  comp.sys.super
  8 24000  1652   98%   287  565.3    57%  0.04    6.6%  news.admin
  9 18000  1232   98%    18  155.3    53%  0.02    5.0%  news.lists
 10  6700   457   96%     2    2.8    50%  0.00    1.8%  comp.protocols.iso
 11  4600   309   98%    42  112.6    50%  0.04    1.2%  comp.os.os9
 12  1800   120   52%     4    7.8    50%  0.00    0.5%  alt.great-lakes
 13  1500   102   61%     2    3.5    50%  0.00    0.4%  comp.lang.lisp.franz
 14    88     6    1%     4   20.5    50%  0.00    0.0%  unix-pc.bugs
 15 13000   858   96%    41   68.3    49%  0.01    3.4%  sci.misc
 16  4000   272   85%    58  134.4    49%  0.05    1.1%  talk.philosophy.misc
 17 11000   772   98%    50   78.9    47%  0.01    3.1%  comp.bugs.sys5
 18 12000   820   98%    55   98.1    44%  0.01    3.3%  comp.bugs.4bsd
 19  6000   404   80%    12   26.5    42%  0.01    1.6%  comp.periphs.printers
 20 26000  1776   97%   133  141.6    41%  0.01    7.1%  misc.wanted
 21 13000   856   98%    18   78.3    41%  0.01    3.4%  comp.std.unix
 22  5000   341   45%    49  210.2    41%  0.03    1.4%  alt.bbs
 23 14000   933   96%   154  276.4    39%  0.03    3.8%  sci.astro
 24  6700   452   96%    19  199.6    39%  0.05    1.8%  comp.lsi
 25 19000  1256   96%   249  471.5    38%  0.04    5.1%  comp.ai
 26  2500   170   85%    34   67.6    38%  0.04    0.7%  soc.culture.arabic
 27 12000   826   96%    32   90.2    37%  0.01    3.3%  comp.edu
 28   120     8    1%   155  249.6    37%  0.04    0.0%  unix-pc.general
 29 33000  2243   87%   282  302.7    36%  0.01    9.0%  misc.forsale
 30 11000   739   88%   367  823.0    36%  0.12    3.0%  misc.legal
 31  8000   540   93%    36   99.3    35%  0.02    2.2%  comp.fonts
 32 28000  1927   98%   324  621.1    34%  0.04    7.7%  news.groups
 33 20000  1376   88%   484  757.2    34%  0.06    5.5%  misc.consumers
 34  3800   260   79%    65  151.1    34%  0.06    1.0%  comp.sys.handhelds
 35 11000   727   98%    19   20.8    33%  0.00    2.9%  news.config
 36  6000   406   87%     3    4.1    33%  0.00    1.6%  rec.misc
 37  2900   198   93%     3   11.4    33%  0.01    0.8%  rec.games.trivia
 38  7300   492   97%    45   68.3    31%  0.02    2.0%  sci.bio
 39  5800   391   93%    91  135.1    31%  0.04    1.6%  rec.music.folk
 40 11000   773   96%    10   12.9    30%  0.00    3.1%  comp.windows.misc