Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rutgers!labrea!decwrl!reid From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups Subject: BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY (JUL 87) Message-ID: <11209@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: Sat, 1-Aug-87 10:44:31 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.11209 Posted: Sat Aug 1 10:44:31 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 2-Aug-87 09:37:22 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:214 news.groups:1311 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 217 2300 178 93% 2 3.1 1 0.01 1.3% rec.games.go 218 2300 178 89% 30 52.4 13 0.12 1.3% rec.scuba 219 2300 178 88% 27 31.5 11 0.07 1.3% rec.arts.poems 220 2300 176 88% 8 8.8 3 0.02 1.2% rec.sport.hockey 221 2200 170 94% 14 28.3 6 0.07 1.2% rec.games.pbm 222 2200 170 88% 10 271.7 4 0.62 1.2% soc.politics.arms-d 223 2200 169 88% 12 52.1 5 0.12 1.2% soc.politics 224 2200 168 94% 15 24.1 7 0.06 1.2% rec.games.bridge 225 2100 157 96% 1 41.5 0 0.10 1.1% comp.sources.atari.st 226 2000 153 96% 2 4.6 1 0.01 1.1% comp.sys.pyramid 227 1700 130 86% 24 70.8 14 0.21 0.9% soc.religion.christian 228 1700 130 18% 20 37.2 11 0.11 0.9% alt.drugs 229 1600 118 95% 1 0.7 0 0.00 0.8% comp.sys.ti 230 1500 110 94% 11 21.3 7 0.07 0.8% soc.culture.greek 231 1400 109 88% 21 42.1 15 0.15 0.8% rec.skydiving 232 1400 108 88% 80 180.3 57 0.65 0.8% misc.handicap 233 1300 98 94% 2 4.2 2 0.02 0.7% comp.os.eunice 234 1200 94 93% 2 139.5 2 0.59 0.7% rec.mag 235 1200 90 20% 2 2.0 2 0.01 0.6% alt.config 236 1000 77 19% 8 4.1 8 0.02 0.5% alt.test