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From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid)
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Subject: BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY (SEP 89)
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Date: 1 Oct 89 13:07:55 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
438  1200    52   56%     3    6.9     0%  0.01    0.2%  bionet.molbio.evolution
439  1100    51   56%     1    0.3     0%  0.00    0.2%  bionet.molbio.news
440  1100    48   55%     2    2.6     0%  0.00    0.2%  bionet.molbio.bio-matrix
441  1000    47   68%     2  174.3     0%  0.22    0.2%  rec.mag.fsfnet
442  1000    47   56%     5    4.3     0%  0.00    0.2%  bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts
443  1000    47   13%     8    9.2    50%  0.00    0.2%  unix-pc.bugs
444   890    40   77%     1    0.8     0%  0.00    0.2%  comp.protocols.pup
445   840    38   70%     2    1.5     0%  0.00    0.2%  comp.lang.idl
446   820    37   93%     1    0.7     0%  0.00    0.2%  comp.sys.celerity
447   820    37   73%     1    0.4     0%  0.00    0.2%  rec.games.vectrex
448   800    36   74%     6    5.6    17%  0.01    0.2%  comp.terminals.tty5620
449   800    36   73%     1    1.8     0%  0.00    0.2%  comp.sys.intel.ipsc310
450   710    32   56%     1    0.5     0%  0.00    0.1%  bionet.molbio.proteins
451   710    32   12%     2    0.8    50%  0.00    0.1%  unix-pc.test
452   690    31   25%     5    6.6     0%  0.00    0.1%  soc.rights.alien
453   670    30    7%     3    1.4     0%  0.00    0.1%  u3b.test
454   620    28    8%    26   44.3     0%  0.01    0.1%  soc.culture.sri-lanka
455   470    21    3%     1    1.2     0%  0.00    0.1%  comp.object
456   440    20    7%    13   13.3     8%  0.00    0.1%  u3b.tech
457   350    16    7%    23   35.3     9%  0.01    0.1%  u3b.misc