Xref: utzoo news.lists:957 news.groups:12708 Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!ginosko!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!ames!purdue!decwrl!reid From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups Subject: BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY (SEP 89) Message-ID: <214@apostrophe.dec.com> Date: 1 Oct 89 13:07:55 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 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