Xref: utzoo news.lists:1024 news.groups:15257 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!snorkelwacker!apple!sun-barr!decwrl!reid From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups Subject: BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PROPAGATION (NOV 89) Message-ID: <305@apostrophe.dec.com> Date: 1 Dec 89 15:02:30 GMT Sender: reid@decwrl.dec.com Organization: DEC Western Research Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif., USA Lines: 34 Approved: reid@decwrl.dec.com 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 473 2500 107 40% 153 323.9 1% 0.10 0.4% soc.culture.korean 474 13000 576 38% 41 53.3 49% 0.00 2.1% alt.sources.wanted 475 6300 274 36% 555 710.4 6% 0.08 1.0% alt.peeves 476 5400 234 34% 41 93.9 3% 0.01 0.8% alt.cyberpunk.tech 477 4100 179 34% 246 491.5 0% 0.08 0.6% alt.callahans 478 2900 128 32% 62 127.9 53% 0.03 0.5% sci.aquaria 479 3600 158 31% 52 86.6 20% 0.01 0.6% alt.exotic-music 480 4600 200 28% 79 154.6 3% 0.02 0.7% alt.cyberspace 481 3000 130 28% 4 10.2 75% 0.00 0.5% biz.clarinet 482 3800 166 21% 178 299.7 35% 0.03 0.6% unix-pc.general 483 3200 140 21% 17 488.5 25% 0.06 0.5% unix-pc.sources 484 2300 99 20% 5 9.5 80% 0.00 0.4% unix-pc.uucp 485 1600 68 20% 8 3.9 25% 0.00 0.2% unix-pc.test 486 1200 52 12% 6 15.2 0% 0.00 0.2% soc.religion.islam 487 730 32 12% 6 5.1 0% 0.00 0.1% u3b.misc 488 570 25 11% 2 3.2 50% 0.00 0.1% u3b.tech 489 570 25 11% 1 0.3 0% 0.00 0.1% u3b.test 490 870 38 6% 45 69.2 0% 0.01 0.1% rec.models.rockets 491 850 37 5% 30 83.7 0% 0.01 0.1% soc.culture.asean 492 180 8 5% 7 4.8 0% 0.00 0.0% alt.sex.carasso.snuggles Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com