Xref: utzoo news.lists:871 news.groups:10571 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!sun-barr!decwrl!reid From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups Subject: BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PROPAGATION (JUN 89) Message-ID: <101@apostrophe.dec.com> Date: 1 Jul 89 13:06:47 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 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 409 550 27 55% 3 3.5 0% 0.01 0.1% bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts 410 570 28 54% 1 3.1 0% 0.01 0.1% bionet.molbio.pir 411 6200 306 52% 388 673.3 5% 0.10 1.2% rec.music.newage 412 1300 65 52% 2 5.2 0% 0.00 0.3% alt.co-ops 413 1200 57 52% 7 10.5 0% 0.01 0.2% bionet.technology.conversion 414 8700 432 50% 81 152.3 0% 0.02 1.8% alt.restaurants 415 7800 384 49% 64 99.8 10% 0.01 1.6% alt.msdos.programmer 416 19000 936 46% 259 517.4 5% 0.02 3.8% alt.sex.bondage 417 1700 86 46% 2 3.4 0% 0.00 0.3% alt.cyb-sys 418 3700 183 44% 15 35.2 0% 0.01 0.7% sci.med.physics 419 6000 299 41% 103 293.3 0% 0.04 1.2% soc.feminism 420 1800 87 40% 39 67.1 11% 0.03 0.4% bionet.software 421 1300 65 40% 11 10.9 0% 0.01 0.3% bionet.population-bio 422 1400 69 39% 8 108.0 0% 0.05 0.3% bionet.journals.contents 423 3400 166 38% 214 409.1 0% 0.08 0.7% gnu.bash.bug 424 3200 159 33% 27 90.9 0% 0.02 0.6% gnu.emacs.gnews 425 2200 108 26% 2 2.8 50% 0.00 0.4% alt.sources.d 426 970 48 8% 80 111.6 0% 0.02 0.2% soc.culture.nordic 427 590 29 3% 202 321.0 59% 0.03 0.1% unix-pc.general 428 480 24 2% 16 240.7 67% 0.03 0.1% unix-pc.sources