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From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid)
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Subject: BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PROPAGATION (SEP 89)
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Date: 1 Oct 89 13:08:13 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
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