Xref: utzoo news.lists:641 news.groups:6397 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 POPULARITY (NOV 88) Message-ID: <16539@decwrl.dec.com> Date: 1 Dec 88 11:52:48 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 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