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 PROPAGATION (APR 87) Message-ID: <9619@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: Fri, 1-May-87 05:38:58 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.9619 Posted: Fri May 1 05:38:58 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 2-May-87 15:31:11 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:128 news.groups:719 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 14000 1068 86% 45 213.9 3 0.07 8.4% net.sources.bugs 211 8100 631 86% 7 13.5 0 0.01 5.0% rec.nude 212 3700 290 86% 114 170.2 30 0.21 2.3% rec.pets 213 3200 250 86% 354 557.7 110 0.80 2.0% rec.sport.basketball 214 3200 248 86% 90 175.2 28 0.25 1.9% rec.sport.misc 215 2700 210 86% 17 24.7 6 0.04 1.6% rec.sport.football 216 2500 193 86% 127 161.3 50 0.30 1.5% rec.arts.tv.soaps 217 2500 193 86% 15 19.4 6 0.04 1.5% rec.sport.hockey 218 2300 179 86% 28 46.7 12 0.09 1.4% rec.arts.wobegon 219 1700 133 86% 10 7.3 5 0.02 1.0% rec.arts.poems 220 1600 123 86% 60 80.9 37 0.23 1.0% rec.birds 221 1100 86 86% 24 43.2 22 0.18 0.7% rec.skydiving 222 16000 1285 85% 21 90.3 1 0.03 10.1% net.sources.games 223 9300 732 85% 11 11.8 1 0.01 5.7% net.sources.mac 224 1500 119 83% 131 249.9 87 0.76 0.9% misc.handicap 225 2500 194 82% 48 115.5 19 0.21 1.5% talk.religion.newage 226 1300 102 78% 1 20.5 1 0.07 0.8% comp.sources.atari.st 227 2800 221 77% 10 249.3 3 0.41 1.7% comp.binaries.atari.st 228 4900 380 63% 4 16.9 0 0.02 3.0% comp.std.unix 229 6600 517 59% 21 67.4 3 0.05 4.1% rec.arts.movies.reviews