Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!sri-spam!mordor!lll-tis!ames!amdcad!decwrl!reid From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups Subject: BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY (JUN 87) Message-ID: <10633@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: Wed, 1-Jul-87 10:09:56 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.10633 Posted: Wed Jul 1 10:09:56 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 2-Jul-87 06:57:46 EDT Sender: reid@decwrl.DEC.COM Organization: DEC Western Research Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif., USA Lines: 34 Approved: reid@decwrl.dec.com Xref: mnetor news.lists:193 news.groups:1132 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 220 2300 181 93% 27 36.9 11 0.08 1.2% rec.games.go 221 2300 180 88% 40 90.4 17 0.20 1.2% rec.scuba 222 2200 174 87% 48 65.0 22 0.15 1.2% rec.arts.poems 223 2200 174 24% 578 1195.0 262 2.70 1.2% soc.men 224 2200 173 81% 7 158.7 3 0.36 1.2% soc.politics.arms-d 225 2100 165 93% 8 19.9 4 0.05 1.1% rec.games.bridge 226 2000 159 93% 2 1.9 1 0.00 1.1% soc.culture.african 227 2000 156 82% 17 58.1 8 0.15 1.1% soc.politics 228 2000 156 80% 25 99.9 12 0.25 1.1% soc.religion.christian 229 1600 128 87% 14 31.3 8 0.10 0.9% soc.roots 230 1500 119 86% 41 160.7 27 0.54 0.8% misc.handicap 231 1400 110 87% 11 15.8 8 0.06 0.8% rec.skydiving 232 1400 107 97% 1 1.7 1 0.01 0.7% comp.bugs.2bsd 233 1300 103 28% 35 69.1 27 0.27 0.7% soc.gender-issues 234 1300 99 93% 11 28.9 8 0.11 0.7% soc.culture.greek 235 1200 97 23% 20 37.2 16 0.16 0.7% comp.hypercube 236 1100 89 94% 8 7.7 7 0.04 0.6% comp.sys.ti 237 1000 80 89% 2 6.8 2 0.03 0.6% comp.sys.pyramid 238 1000 79 23% 2 50.6 2 0.26 0.5% rec.humor.spc 239 340 27 90% 0 0.0 0 0.00 0.2% rec.food.recipes