Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-lcc!pyramid!decwrl!reid From: reid@decwrl.UUCP (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups Subject: BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY (APR 87) Message-ID: <9618@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: Fri, 1-May-87 05:36:53 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.9618 Posted: Fri May 1 05:36:53 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 2-May-87 15:28:00 EDT Sender: reid@decwrl.DEC.COM Organization: DEC Western Research Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif., USA Lines: 34 Approved: reid@decwrl.UUCP Xref: mnetor news.lists:127 news.groups:718 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) | | | | | +-- Participation ratio | | | | | | +-- Cost ratio: $US/month/reader | | | | | | | +-- Share: % of newsreaders | | | | | | | | who read this group. V V V V V V V V 210 2000 159 93% 18 26.4 9 0.06 1.2% soc.culture.celtic 211 1900 150 87% 32 93.7 17 0.23 1.2% rec.railroad 212 1900 149 95% 15 21.8 8 0.05 1.2% comp.os.eunice 213 1900 148 89% 11 14.6 6 0.04 1.2% rec.mag 214 1900 147 95% 1 19.4 0 0.05 1.2% mod.os.os9 215 1900 145 93% 68 145.3 36 0.35 1.1% rec.games.bridge 216 1900 145 88% 8 15.5 4 0.04 1.1% soc.roots 217 1800 143 95% 1 1.9 0 0.00 1.1% comp.std.internat 218 1800 141 96% 7 7.3 3 0.02 1.1% comp.lang.apl 219 1700 137 87% 4 4.1 2 0.01 1.1% rec.scuba 220 1700 133 86% 10 7.3 5 0.02 1.0% rec.arts.poems 221 1600 123 86% 60 80.9 37 0.23 1.0% rec.birds 222 1500 119 83% 131 249.9 87 0.76 0.9% misc.handicap 223 1500 117 88% 32 75.7 21 0.23 0.9% talk.abortion 224 1400 108 96% 7 9.0 5 0.03 0.8% comp.sys.ti 225 1300 102 78% 1 20.5 1 0.07 0.8% comp.sources.atari.st 226 1200 95 94% 1 1.3 1 0.01 0.7% mod.computers.ridge 227 1100 86 86% 24 43.2 22 0.18 0.7% rec.skydiving 228 1100 83 92% 1 0.8 1 0.00 0.7% soc.culture.african 229 860 67 93% 54 150.8 63 0.80 0.5% soc.culture.greek