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From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid)
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Subject: BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PROPAGATION (OCT 89)
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Date: 1 Nov 89 15:14:13 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
458  2000    91   39%     2    5.5     0%  0.00    0.4%  comp.hypercube
459  8600   386   30%   181  235.0     5%  0.01    1.6%  comp.sys.mac.hardware
460  9700   436   27%     5   21.3     0%  0.00    1.8%  comp.security.announce
461  4500   201   27%   375  641.7     4%  0.07    0.8%  misc.rural
462 11000   499   25%    24   34.4    13%  0.00    2.0%  alt.sex.bestiality
463  3500   159   25%   125 1003.5     7%  0.13    0.6%  comp.os.os2
464  2400   108   22%     4    4.6     0%  0.00    0.4%  biz.clarinet.sample
465  2800   125   21%     3    3.3    67%  0.00    0.5%  biz.clarinet
466  2700   119   16%   199  378.0    37%  0.04    0.5%  unix-pc.general
467  2200    97   15%    23  220.9    27%  0.03    0.4%  unix-pc.sources
468  1600    71   15%    21   30.4     0%  0.01    0.3%  unix-pc.uucp
469   980    44   15%     5    8.2    80%  0.00    0.2%  unix-pc.bugs
470   710    32   14%    10    6.2     0%  0.00    0.1%  unix-pc.test
471  1100    51   12%   125  207.1     1%  0.04    0.2%  soc.culture.latin-america
472   600    27    9%     5    7.5    80%  0.00    0.1%  u3b.tech
473   540    24    9%     4    4.2    25%  0.00    0.1%  u3b.misc
474   690    31    8%     1    0.5   100%  0.00    0.1%  u3b.test
475  1900    85    6%   305  337.5     4%  0.02    0.3%  alt.peeves
476   830    37    3%     3    2.8    67%  0.00    0.2%  alt.sex.masterbation
477  2500   110    2%     2    2.1    50%  0.00    0.4%  alt.sex.carasso