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From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid)
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Subject: BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY (NOV 89)
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Date: 1 Dec 89 15:02:25 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
473  2400   103   96%     1    0.7     0%  0.00    0.4%  comp.sys.m68k.pc
474  2300    99   20%     5    9.5    80%  0.00    0.4%  unix-pc.uucp
475  1900    81   96%     1    0.6     0%  0.00    0.3%  comp.sys.ti
476  1800    80   44%     3    3.0     0%  0.00    0.3%  biz.test
477  1700    76   58%     1    1.5     0%  0.00    0.3%  bionet.molbio.news
478  1700    73   46%     3    4.8     0%  0.00    0.3%  bionet.agroforestry
479  1600    68   20%     8    3.9    25%  0.00    0.2%  unix-pc.test
480  1300    57   68%     1  123.9     0%  0.12    0.2%  rec.mag.fsfnet
481  1200    52   12%     6   15.2     0%  0.00    0.2%  soc.religion.islam
482  1100    48   58%     1   17.3     0%  0.02    0.2%  bionet.molbio.proteins
483   920    40   58%     1    0.6     0%  0.00    0.1%  bionet.molbio.gene-org
484   890    39   96%     1    1.4   100%  0.00    0.1%  comp.sys.ridge
485   870    38    6%    45   69.2     0%  0.01    0.1%  rec.models.rockets
486   850    37   69%     1    0.5     0%  0.00    0.1%  comp.os.cpm.amethyst
487   850    37    5%    30   83.7     0%  0.01    0.1%  soc.culture.asean
488   730    32   12%     6    5.1     0%  0.00    0.1%  u3b.misc
489   690    30   58%     1    0.4     0%  0.00    0.1%  bionet.molbio.embldatabank
490   570    25   11%     2    3.2    50%  0.00    0.1%  u3b.tech
491   570    25   11%     1    0.3     0%  0.00    0.1%  u3b.test
492   180     8    5%     7    4.8     0%  0.00    0.0%  alt.sex.carasso.snuggles


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