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Subject: TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PROPAGATION ()
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TOP 40 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)
       |     |     |      |     |      +-- Participation ratio
       |     |     |      |     |      |    +-- Cost ratio: $US/month/reader
       |     |     |      |     |      |    |       +-- Share: % of newsreaders
       |     |     |      |     |      |    |       |   who read this group.
       V     V     V      V     V      V    V       V
  1 30000  2565   99%    15  747.5     0  16.00   13.6%  comp.sources.unix
  2 23000  1962   99%   264  378.9    11  11.00   10.4%  comp.unix.wizards
  3 21000  1783   99%   120  162.0     5   4.90    9.5%  comp.sources.d
  4 20000  1751   99%   172  311.3     8  10.00    9.3%  news.groups
  5 20000  1690   99%   152  139.1     7   4.50    9.0%  comp.sources.wanted
  6 15000  1286   99%    40  141.7     2   6.10    6.8%  news.misc
  7 14000  1218   99%    25   41.3     1   1.90    6.5%  comp.mail.uucp
  8 14000  1196   99%   108  228.9     7  10.00    6.4%  news.admin
  9 13000  1081   99%    74  100.7     5   5.00    5.8%  comp.mail.misc
 10 11000   949   99%    57  103.0     5   6.00    5.0%  comp.dcom.lans
 11 11000   943   99%   304  645.1    27  38.00    5.0%  comp.emacs
 12 11000   912   99%    67   90.3     6   5.20    4.9%  comp.text
 13 10000   868   99%   108  224.7    10  14.00    4.6%  comp.dcom.modems
 14  9700   832   99%    17   44.7     1   3.00    4.4%  news.sysadmin
 15  9600   823   99%    38   44.5     4   3.00    4.4%  news.config
 16  8200   698   99%   107  239.1    13  19.00    3.7%  comp.unix.xenix
 17  7400   633   99%    80  136.9    10  12.00    3.4%  comp.cog-eng
 18 24000  2089   98%    60 2140.3     2  57.00   11.1%  comp.sources.misc
 19 22000  1838   98%  1302 2011.5    59  58.00    9.8%  comp.sys.mac
 20 21000  1757   98%    21  922.6     1  28.00    9.3%  comp.sources.games
 21 20000  1702   98%   375  565.0    18  18.00    9.1%  comp.lang.c
 22 19000  1601   98%    15   21.3     0   0.71    8.5%  comp.newprod
 23 19000  1593   98%    77   76.2     4   2.60    8.5%  misc.wanted
 24 18000  1576   98%    95  171.5     5   6.10    8.4%  comp.sources.bugs
 25 15000  1291   98%   140  268.5     9  11.00    6.9%  sci.med
 26 13000  1129   98%     5   15.8     0   0.77    6.0%  comp.bugs.4bsd.ucb-fixes
 27 11000   902   98%    80   88.9     7   5.10    4.8%  comp.os.minix
 28 10000   885   98%    15  122.5     1   7.80    4.7%  news.lists
 29 10000   879   98%    57   63.2     5   4.00    4.7%  comp.databases
 30  9600   819   98%   341  532.6    35  35.00    4.4%  comp.protocols.tcp-ip
 31  9500   813   98%    51  119.8     5   8.00    4.3%  comp.lang.c++
 32  9100   776   98%   115  186.1    12  13.00    4.1%  sci.math
 33  8900   762   98%    52  144.4     5  10.00    4.1%  news.software.b
 34  8900   761   98%   121  213.0    13  15.00    4.0%  sci.astro
 35  8600   731   98%    11   22.3     1   1.70    3.9%  comp.org.usenix
 36  8200   700   98%    14   23.3     1   1.80    3.7%  comp.bugs.sys5
 37  8000   681   98%    17   27.8     2   2.20    3.6%  comp.protocols.misc
 38  7200   616   98%    37  163.0     5  14.00    3.3%  comp.lang.prolog
 39  7000   601   98%    25   26.7     3   2.40    3.2%  comp.windows.news
 40  6700   571   98%    17   26.2     2   2.50    3.0%  sci.crypt