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Subject: BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY (AUG 89)
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Date: 1 Sep 89 13:41:45 GMT
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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)
       |     |     |      |     |      +-- Crossposting percentage
       |     |     |      |     |      |    +-- Cost ratio: $US/month/reader
       |     |     |      |     |      |    |       +-- Share: % of newsreaders
       |     |     |      |     |      |    |       |   who read this group.
       V     V     V      V     V      V    V       V
423  1600    75   46%    10   16.3     0%  0.01    0.3%  bionet.software
424  1500    72   94%     1    1.0     0%  0.00    0.3%  comp.sys.ti
425  1500    72   84%     7    8.4     0%  0.01    0.3%  rec.arts.int-fiction
426  1500    71   94%     2    2.3    50%  0.00    0.3%  comp.sys.ridge
427  1400    66   78%     2    2.1    50%  0.00    0.3%  comp.lang.lisp.franz
428  1400    65    5%     2    7.7    50%  0.00    0.3%  sci.aeronautics
429  1300    62   74%     1    0.9     0%  0.00    0.3%  comp.dcom.lans.hyperchannel
430  1300    60   56%     5    3.3     0%  0.00    0.3%  bionet.molbio.gene-org
431  1100    54   10%     2    2.0     0%  0.00    0.2%  unix-pc.bugs
432  1000    49   56%     2    1.1     0%  0.00    0.2%  bionet.molbio.news
433  1000    49   10%     8   11.9     0%  0.00    0.2%  unix-pc.uucp
434  1000    47   46%    10  166.3     0%  0.14    0.2%  bionet.journals.contents
435   940    44   56%     1    1.4   100%  0.00    0.2%  bionet.molbio.embldatabank
436   910    43   27%     4    2.2     0%  0.00    0.2%  bionet.agroforestry
437   790    37   56%     1    5.8     0%  0.01    0.2%  bionet.molbio.evolution
438   700    33   56%     2    1.5     0%  0.00    0.1%  bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts
439   640    30    9%     8   11.0     0%  0.00    0.1%  unix-pc.test
440   620    29    5%    21   40.3     0%  0.01    0.1%  soc.rights.alien
441   510    24   92%     1    1.5     0%  0.00    0.1%  comp.sys.celerity
442   450    21    6%     3    6.0   100%  0.00    0.1%  u3b.tech