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From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid)
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Subject: BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY (NOV 88)
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Date: 1 Dec 88 11:52:48 GMT
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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
366  1100    73   83%     1    1.6     0%  0.00    0.3%  rec.arts.int-fiction
367  1000    70   38%     2    0.9     0%  0.00    0.3%  bionet.molbio.plant
368  1000    68   93%     3   89.1     0%  0.15    0.3%  soc.politics.arms-d
369   910    62   41%     1    1.3     0%  0.00    0.2%  alt.rhode_island
370   900    61   59%    20   27.3     0%  0.03    0.2%  comp.sys.ti.explorer
371   880    60   60%    15   15.9     0%  0.02    0.2%  soc.culture.esperanto
372   880    60   39%    11    6.9     0%  0.01    0.2%  bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts
373   850    58   38%     4    3.6     0%  0.00    0.2%  bionet.molbio.news
374   850    58    6%    45   99.9    17%  0.01    0.2%  alt.prose
375   840    57   39%     5    4.8     0%  0.00    0.2%  bionet.molbio.proteins
376   830    56   95%     1   16.1     0%  0.03    0.2%  comp.theory.info-retrieval
377   770    52   58%     2    3.5     0%  0.00    0.2%  comp.edu.composition
378   750    51   37%     1    4.2     0%  0.00    0.2%  bionet.molbio.genbank
379   570    39   37%     3    8.8     0%  0.01    0.2%  bionet.software.pc
380   550    37   95%     1    0.8     0%  0.00    0.1%  comp.sys.ridge
381   410    28   28%     2   12.2     0%  0.02    0.1%  bionet.molbio.swiss-prot
382   350    24   20%     2    4.0     0%  0.00    0.1%  bionet.technology.conversion
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