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 PROPAGATION (AUG 87) Message-ID: <11584@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: Tue, 1-Sep-87 07:37:55 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.11584 Posted: Tue Sep 1 07:37:55 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Sep-87 02:56:57 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:231 news.groups:1448 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 173 88% 7 6.2 3 0.01 1.2% rec.arts.wobegon 218 2200 160 88% 2 3.1 1 0.01 1.1% rec.sport.hockey 219 1500 109 88% 57 142.8 38 0.48 0.7% misc.handicap 220 1200 93 88% 14 21.4 11 0.09 0.6% rec.skydiving 221 3100 228 87% 40 80.7 12 0.13 1.5% rec.guns 222 3000 224 87% 117 436.8 39 0.74 1.5% talk.origins 223 1800 137 87% 30 88.1 16 0.25 0.9% soc.religion.christian 224 1700 130 87% 8 21.9 5 0.07 0.9% soc.roots 225 1100 79 87% 22 68.9 20 0.32 0.5% talk.politics.theory 226 11000 821 86% 37 91.9 3 0.04 5.5% sci.med.aids 227 5000 369 86% 300 1106.7 60 1.10 2.5% talk.religion.newage 228 13000 941 81% 12 649.9 0 0.25 6.3% comp.binaries.ibm.pc 229 7600 564 80% 8 8.0 1 0.01 3.8% comp.hypercube 230 7900 590 73% 465 922.9 58 0.59 3.9% soc.men 231 12000 903 42% 34 44.9 2 0.02 6.0% rec.humor.funny 232 5300 391 39% 10 65.0 1 0.06 2.6% alt.sources 233 4700 347 39% 27 66.7 5 0.07 2.3% alt.gourmand 234 1500 114 33% 1 0.7 0 0.00 0.8% alt.test 235 3100 232 32% 28 67.7 9 0.11 1.5% alt.drugs 236 580 43 8% 12 36.1 22 0.32 0.3% rec.arts.int-fiction