Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!ut-sally!husc6!mit-eddie!ll-xn!cit-vax!ucla-cs!zen!ucbvax!decvax!decwrl!reid From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups Subject: BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY (AUG 87) Message-ID: <11583@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: Tue, 1-Sep-87 07:37:41 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.11583 Posted: Tue Sep 1 07:37:41 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Sep-87 02:55:54 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:230 news.groups:1447 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 2500 186 88% 28 45.2 11 0.09 1.2% talk.abortion 218 2400 180 88% 17 24.0 7 0.05 1.2% rec.birds 219 2400 176 88% 17 22.4 7 0.05 1.2% rec.arts.poems 220 2300 173 88% 7 6.2 3 0.01 1.2% rec.arts.wobegon 221 2200 166 89% 10 293.8 4 0.68 1.1% soc.politics.arms-d 222 2200 163 94% 8 21.1 3 0.05 1.1% rec.games.go 223 2200 160 88% 2 3.1 1 0.01 1.1% rec.sport.hockey 224 1800 137 87% 30 88.1 16 0.25 0.9% soc.religion.christian 225 1800 132 94% 22 41.8 12 0.12 0.9% rec.games.bridge 226 1700 130 87% 8 21.9 5 0.07 0.9% soc.roots 227 1700 123 97% 15 601.4 9 1.80 0.8% comp.doc 228 1600 121 95% 1 0.9 0 0.00 0.8% comp.sys.ridge 229 1500 114 33% 1 0.7 0 0.00 0.8% alt.test 230 1500 109 88% 57 142.8 38 0.48 0.7% misc.handicap 231 1500 108 95% 15 22.9 10 0.08 0.7% comp.sys.ti 232 1200 93 94% 1 2.1 1 0.01 0.6% soc.culture.greek 233 1200 93 88% 14 21.4 11 0.09 0.6% rec.skydiving 234 1200 91 95% 1 1.5 1 0.01 0.6% comp.os.eunice 235 1100 79 87% 22 68.9 20 0.32 0.5% talk.politics.theory 236 580 43 8% 12 36.1 22 0.32 0.3% rec.arts.int-fiction