Xref: utzoo news.lists:872 news.groups:10572 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 POPULARITY (JUN 89) Message-ID: <100@apostrophe.dec.com> Date: 1 Jul 89 13:06:42 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 409 1400 69 39% 8 108.0 0% 0.05 0.3% bionet.journals.contents 410 1400 68 94% 3 2.8 0% 0.00 0.3% comp.sys.ridge 411 1300 65 52% 2 5.2 0% 0.00 0.3% alt.co-ops 412 1300 65 40% 11 10.9 0% 0.01 0.3% bionet.population-bio 413 1200 59 80% 1 1.1 0% 0.00 0.2% comp.lang.forth.mac 414 1200 57 52% 7 10.5 0% 0.01 0.2% bionet.technology.conversion 415 1100 53 93% 3 2.3 0% 0.00 0.2% comp.sys.tahoe 416 1000 50 73% 3 8.8 0% 0.01 0.2% comp.lang.clu 417 990 49 55% 4 32.0 0% 0.03 0.2% bionet.sci-resources 418 990 49 55% 4 3.5 0% 0.00 0.2% bionet.molbio.proteins 419 970 48 8% 80 111.6 0% 0.02 0.2% soc.culture.nordic 420 650 32 71% 4 5.0 100% 0.01 0.1% comp.sys.northstar 421 610 30 74% 1 1.3 0% 0.00 0.1% rec.games.vectrex 422 590 29 55% 1 0.4 0% 0.00 0.1% bionet.molbio.bio-matrix 423 590 29 3% 202 321.0 59% 0.03 0.1% unix-pc.general 424 570 28 56% 1 0.8 0% 0.00 0.1% bionet.molbio.news 425 570 28 54% 1 3.1 0% 0.01 0.1% bionet.molbio.pir 426 550 27 55% 3 3.5 0% 0.01 0.1% bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts 427 480 24 2% 16 240.7 67% 0.03 0.1% unix-pc.sources 428 420 21 69% 1 0.6 0% 0.00 0.1% comp.protocols.pup