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 PROPAGATION (JUN 87) Message-ID: <10634@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: Wed, 1-Jul-87 10:10:36 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.10634 Posted: Wed Jul 1 10:10:36 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 2-Jul-87 06:59:08 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:194 news.groups:1133 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 220 7900 626 86% 34 74.1 4 0.05 4.3% comp.text.desktop 221 1500 119 86% 41 160.7 27 0.54 0.8% misc.handicap 222 8400 666 85% 11 16.4 1 0.01 4.6% comp.windows.misc 223 5000 393 85% 15 752.0 3 0.76 2.7% comp.mail.maps 224 3400 271 85% 114 202.8 33 0.30 1.9% talk.religion.newage 225 2000 156 82% 17 58.1 8 0.15 1.1% soc.politics 226 2700 214 81% 40 63.2 14 0.12 1.5% rec.guns 227 2200 173 81% 7 158.7 3 0.36 1.2% soc.politics.arms-d 228 2000 156 80% 25 99.9 12 0.25 1.1% soc.religion.christian 229 12000 935 79% 191 380.6 15 0.16 6.5% misc.jobs.misc 230 17000 1323 78% 54 108.3 3 0.03 9.1% misc.jobs.offered 231 9500 752 76% 38 189.5 4 0.10 5.2% misc.jobs.resumes 232 5600 445 54% 65 242.6 11 0.22 3.1% sci.med.aids 233 13000 1004 44% 10 93.8 0 0.04 6.9% net.sources 234 4400 351 42% 1 0.6 0 0.00 2.4% net.sources.bugs 235 2800 221 33% 24 1096.0 8 2.00 1.5% comp.binaries.ibm.pc 236 1300 103 28% 35 69.1 27 0.27 0.7% soc.gender-issues 237 2200 174 24% 578 1195.0 262 2.70 1.2% soc.men 238 1200 97 23% 20 37.2 16 0.16 0.7% comp.hypercube 239 1000 79 23% 2 50.6 2 0.26 0.5% rec.humor.spc