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From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid)
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Subject: BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PROPAGATION (AUG 89)
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Date: 1 Sep 89 13:42:03 GMT
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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
423  5100   240   46%   103  146.6     2%  0.02    1.0%  alt.religion.computers
424  1600    75   46%    10   16.3     0%  0.01    0.3%  bionet.software
425  1000    47   46%    10  166.3     0%  0.14    0.2%  bionet.journals.contents
426  2600   124   45%   230  451.9     0%  0.14    0.5%  rec.music.dylan
427  7200   339   44%   113  196.3     0%  0.02    1.5%  alt.romance
428  1600    76   40%   292  418.9     0%  0.19    0.3%  alt.cosuard
429  5100   239   38%    40   74.2    16%  0.01    1.0%  comp.os.mach
430  4200   197   36%   182  359.6     9%  0.06    0.8%  alt.gambling
431  3100   146   30%    60  126.3     0%  0.02    0.6%  misc.emerg-services
432   910    43   27%     4    2.2     0%  0.00    0.2%  bionet.agroforestry
433  2100   100   11%   155  276.3    55%  0.03    0.4%  unix-pc.general
434  1700    81   10%    11  428.9   100%  0.05    0.3%  unix-pc.sources
435  1700    79   10%    92  174.7     3%  0.02    0.3%  soc.rights.human
436  1100    54   10%     2    2.0     0%  0.00    0.2%  unix-pc.bugs
437  1000    49   10%     8   11.9     0%  0.00    0.2%  unix-pc.uucp
438   640    30    9%     8   11.0     0%  0.00    0.1%  unix-pc.test
439   450    21    6%     3    6.0   100%  0.00    0.1%  u3b.tech
440  1400    65    5%     2    7.7    50%  0.00    0.3%  sci.aeronautics
441   620    29    5%    21   40.3     0%  0.01    0.1%  soc.rights.alien
442  1900    88    4%    38   64.6     3%  0.00    0.4%  sci.skeptic