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From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid)
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Subject: BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY (OCT 89)
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Date: 1 Nov 89 15:14:04 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
458  1500    65   49%     9  152.9     0%  0.09    0.3%  bionet.journals.contents
459  1400    64   54%    17   21.5     0%  0.02    0.3%  bionet.technology.conversion
460  1400    63   72%    23   20.4     0%  0.02    0.3%  rec.games.vectrex
461  1400    62   41%     3    5.1     0%  0.00    0.3%  bionet.agroforestry
462  1300    58   56%     4    2.7     0%  0.00    0.2%  bionet.molbio.genbank
463  1300    57   75%     5   10.6     0%  0.01    0.2%  comp.sys.cdc
464  1200    55   56%    11  391.5     0%  0.34    0.2%  bionet.sci-resources
465  1200    53   56%     1    0.6     0%  0.00    0.2%  bionet.molbio.bio-matrix
466  1200    52   48%     1    1.0     0%  0.00    0.2%  bionet.population-bio
467  1100    51   12%   125  207.1     1%  0.04    0.2%  soc.culture.latin-america
468   980    44   15%     5    8.2    80%  0.00    0.2%  unix-pc.bugs
469   890    40   56%     1    0.4     0%  0.00    0.2%  bionet.molbio.evolution
470   870    39   56%     3    4.0    67%  0.00    0.2%  bionet.molbio.proteins
471   830    37    3%     3    2.8    67%  0.00    0.2%  alt.sex.masterbation
472   710    32   56%     1    3.0     0%  0.00    0.1%  bionet.molbio.gene-org
473   710    32   14%    10    6.2     0%  0.00    0.1%  unix-pc.test
474   690    31    8%     1    0.5   100%  0.00    0.1%  u3b.test
475   630    28   56%     2    1.9     0%  0.00    0.1%  bionet.molbio.embldatabank
476   600    27    9%     5    7.5    80%  0.00    0.1%  u3b.tech
477   540    24    9%     4    4.2    25%  0.00    0.1%  u3b.misc