Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!decvax!decwrl!reid From: reid@decwrl.UUCP Newsgroups: mod.newslists,news.lists,news.groups Subject: BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PROPAGATION (MAR 87) Message-ID: <9026@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: Thu, 2-Apr-87 14:14:29 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.9026 Posted: Thu Apr 2 14:14:29 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 4-Apr-87 16:40:04 EST Sender: reid@decwrl.DEC.COM Organization: DEC Western Research Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif., USA Lines: 34 Approved: reid@decwrl.UUCP Xref: utgpu mod.newslists:540 news.lists:109 news.groups:598 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) | | | | | +-- Participation ratio | | | | | | +-- Cost ratio: $US/month/reader | | | | | | | +-- Share: % of newsreaders | | | | | | | | who read this group. V V V V V V V V 210 1700 133 85% 10 7.3 5 0.02 1.1% rec.arts.poems 211 15000 1187 84% 21 90.3 1 0.03 9.7% net.sources.games 212 8600 663 84% 7 13.5 0 0.01 5.4% rec.nude 213 8300 637 84% 11 11.8 1 0.01 5.2% net.sources.mac 214 3800 295 84% 114 170.2 30 0.20 2.4% rec.pets 215 2900 223 84% 354 557.7 122 0.87 1.8% rec.sport.basketball 216 2800 213 84% 17 24.7 6 0.04 1.7% rec.sport.football 217 2800 212 84% 90 175.2 32 0.28 1.7% rec.sport.misc 218 2400 185 84% 127 161.3 52 0.30 1.5% rec.arts.tv.soaps 219 2400 181 84% 28 46.7 11 0.09 1.5% rec.arts.wobegon 220 2300 180 84% 15 19.4 6 0.04 1.5% rec.sport.hockey 221 1600 122 84% 60 80.9 37 0.23 1.0% rec.birds 222 1300 103 84% 24 43.2 18 0.15 0.8% rec.skydiving 223 1800 138 82% 131 249.9 73 0.62 1.1% misc.handicap 224 10000 768 81% 247 398.2 24 0.18 6.3% comp.windows.x 225 2400 185 80% 48 115.5 20 0.22 1.5% talk.religion.newage 226 1100 87 65% 10 249.3 9 1.00 0.7% comp.binaries.atari.st 227 590 45 65% 1 20.5 2 0.16 0.4% comp.sources.atari.st 228 3500 272 41% 21 67.4 6 0.09 2.2% rec.arts.movies.reviews 229 2000 154 35% 4 16.9 2 0.04 1.3% comp.std.unix