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From: fadden@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Andy McFadden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Lists...
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Date: 2 Oct 89 01:58:04 GMT
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Reply-To: fadden@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Andy McFadden)
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Thought you might find this interesting...

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>Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups

TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PER-READER COST
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
  1  3800   173   85%   628 1284.5     0%  0.52    0.7%  misc.handicap
 19 12000   549   96%  1052 1565.4     1%  0.23    2.3%  comp.sys.apple
(comp.sys.mac and comp.binaries.mac are not on this list )

TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY
  1 70000  3170   94%    52  117.6     0%  0.00   13.5%  rec.humor.funny
 12 41000  1860   96%  1776 2769.3    10%  0.12    7.9%  comp.sys.mac
 40 25000  1140   95%    85 2447.2     0%  0.17    4.9%  comp.binaries.mac
(comp.sys.apple and comp.binaries.apple2 are not on this list)

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