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From: goodwinm@prism.cs.orst.edu (Michael Goodwin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: c.s.a.datacomm - bottom of the barrel.
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Date: 3 Mar 91 22:59:09 GMT
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In article <1991Mar3.173028.9049@leland.Stanford.EDU> bard@jessica.stanford.edu (David Hopper) writes:
>
>Well, c.s.a.datacomm is second-to-last for both popularity and propagation.
>comp.unix.amiga is down there also.  Ah well.  See news.lists for more info.
>
>Xref: leland.Stanford.EDU news.lists:298 news.groups:7937
>Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups
>Subject: BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY (FEB 91)
>Message-ID: <1991Mar3.142519.19888@pa.dec.com>
>
>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 newsrders
>        |     |     |      |      |      |    |      |   who read this group.
>        V     V     V      V      V      V    V      V
>[...]
>730   1300    29   13%    39    65.5     8%  0.01   0.1%  talk.bizarre.rabbit
>731   1300    28   11%     1     1.0     0%  0.00   0.1%  comp.sys.amiga.datacom
>732   1000    22   22%    34    95.1     6%  0.04   0.1%  trial.soc.culture.czechoslovak
>
>Too bad we didn't beat out talk.bizarre.rabbit!

I can't believe that they would say that c.s.a.datacomm has only one message 
per month.  That is real lying through statistics if I ever saw it.  I see at
least 20 messages a day!