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Subject: BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY ()
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Date: Tue, 1-Dec-87 20:53:28 EST
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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)
       |     |     |      |     |      +-- Participation ratio
       |     |     |      |     |      |    +-- Cost ratio: $US/month/reader
       |     |     |      |     |      |    |       +-- Share: % of newsreaders
       |     |     |      |     |      |    |       |   who read this group.
       V     V     V      V     V      V    V       V
274  1600   137   40%     2    3.2     1   0.52    0.7%  comp.sys.handhelds
275  1600   136   96%    22   39.1    14  15.00    0.7%  comp.sys.pyramid
276  1600   133   23%     1    1.4     0   0.13    0.7%  net.sources.bugs
277  1500   131   41%    11    8.4     7   1.50    0.7%  comp.mail.mhs.arpa
278  1500   131   29%   490 1049.6   326 130.00    0.7%  soc.culture.china
279  1500   130   87%    78  133.9    52  51.00    0.7%  misc.handicap
280  1500   129   92%     5  141.3     3  56.00    0.7%  soc.politics.arms-d
281  1500   129   42%     4    4.8     2   0.87    0.7%  comp.os.v
282  1500   126   44%     5    8.0     3   1.50    0.7%  comp.lang.icon
283  1500   125   27%   130  239.6    86  28.00    0.7%  rec.models.rc
284  1400   116   87%     5    5.9     4   2.40    0.6%  rec.skydiving
285  1200   102   93%     5   11.7     4   5.90    0.5%  soc.culture.greek
286  1100    91   42%     8   14.7     7   3.70    0.5%  comp.theory.cell-automata
287  1100    91   39%     2    3.9     2   0.89    0.5%  comp.theory.dynamic-sys
288  1100    90   42%     8   49.2     7  12.00    0.5%  sci.bio.technology
289  1000    87   15%    32   56.1    32   5.60    0.5%  alt.aquaria
290   830    71   35%    31   32.6    37   9.00    0.4%  comp.lang.asm370
291   800    68   42%     1    1.8     1   0.62    0.4%  soc.culture.esperanto
292   750    64   43%    61   55.3    81  21.00    0.3%  comp.lang.rexx
293   730    62   43%     8    6.1    11   2.40    0.3%  comp.sys.zenith