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Subject: BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PROPAGATION (JUL 87)
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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
217  2300   178   88%    27   31.5    11   0.07    1.3%  rec.arts.poems
218  2300   176   88%     8    8.8     3   0.02    1.2%  rec.sport.hockey
219  2200   170   88%    10  271.7     4   0.62    1.2%  soc.politics.arms-d
220  2200   169   88%    12   52.1     5   0.12    1.2%  soc.politics
221  1400   109   88%    21   42.1    15   0.15    0.8%  rec.skydiving
222  1400   108   88%    80  180.3    57   0.65    0.8%  misc.handicap
223 12000   942   87%   110  183.4     9   0.08    6.6%  misc.jobs.misc
224 19000  1454   86%    81  175.0     4   0.05   10.2%  misc.jobs.offered
225  4200   316   86%   230  623.0    54   0.75    2.2%  talk.religion.newage
226  1700   130   86%    24   70.8    14   0.21    0.9%  soc.religion.christian
227  9300   707   85%    28  113.5     3   0.06    5.0%  misc.jobs.resumes
228  9300   704   77%    45  118.1     4   0.06    5.0%  sci.med.aids
229  9400   713   71%    42 1727.6     4   0.93    5.0%  comp.binaries.ibm.pc
230  6500   494   70%    50  130.0     7   0.10    3.5%  comp.hypercube
231  6300   480   65%   921 2197.7   146   1.80    3.4%  soc.men
232  2700   208   22%    25   58.6     9   0.11    1.5%  alt.gourmand
233  2700   208   21%    12  352.1     4   0.66    1.5%  alt.sources
234  1200    90   20%     2    2.0     2   0.01    0.6%  alt.config
235  1000    77   19%     8    4.1     8   0.02    0.5%  alt.test
236  1700   130   18%    20   37.2    11   0.11    0.9%  (N{
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