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From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid)
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Subject: BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PROPAGATION (NOV 88)
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Date: 1 Dec 88 11:52:53 GMT
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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