Xref: utzoo news.lists:956 news.groups:12707 Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!ginosko!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ames!purdue!decwrl!reid From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups Subject: BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PROPAGATION (SEP 89) Message-ID: <215@apostrophe.dec.com> Date: 1 Oct 89 13:08:13 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 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 438 1300 57 47% 11 157.2 9% 0.10 0.2% bionet.journals.contents 439 3800 171 46% 617 1215.2 3% 0.27 0.7% soc.culture.taiwan 440 1400 63 46% 7 9.1 0% 0.01 0.3% bionet.population-bio 441 3300 148 44% 291 673.6 4% 0.16 0.6% sci.econ 442 1900 85 36% 7 9.0 0% 0.00 0.4% bionet.agroforestry 443 3700 168 26% 80 124.6 8% 0.02 0.7% comp.unix.aix 444 690 31 25% 5 6.6 0% 0.00 0.1% soc.rights.alien 445 2400 107 13% 109 175.4 33% 0.02 0.5% unix-pc.general 446 2100 94 13% 21 760.6 5% 0.09 0.4% unix-pc.sources 447 1600 70 13% 11 37.5 0% 0.01 0.3% unix-pc.uucp 448 1000 47 13% 8 9.2 50% 0.00 0.2% unix-pc.bugs 449 2800 128 12% 170 361.4 10% 0.03 0.5% comp.dsp 450 710 32 12% 2 0.8 50% 0.00 0.1% unix-pc.test 451 620 28 8% 26 44.3 0% 0.01 0.1% soc.culture.sri-lanka 452 3300 148 7% 46 62.2 5% 0.00 0.6% alt.sys.sun 453 670 30 7% 3 1.4 0% 0.00 0.1% u3b.test 454 440 20 7% 13 13.3 8% 0.00 0.1% u3b.tech 455 350 16 7% 23 35.3 9% 0.01 0.1% u3b.misc 456 4300 192 5% 50 60.9 9% 0.00 0.8% alt.sex.bestiality 457 470 21 3% 1 1.2 0% 0.00 0.1% comp.object