Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!necntc!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!decvax!decwrl!reid From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups Subject: BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY (SEP 87) Message-ID: <11728@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: Thu, 1-Oct-87 08:50:20 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.11728 Posted: Thu Oct 1 08:50:20 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 5-Oct-87 04:29:42 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:256 news.groups:1612 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 261 1400 106 94% 5 5.4 4 0.02 0.7% comp.sys.ridge 262 1400 101 94% 8 20.5 6 0.08 0.6% soc.culture.greek 263 1300 96 88% 2 3.8 2 0.01 0.6% rec.skydiving 264 1300 94 24% 34 70.9 26 0.28 0.6% soc.culture.japan 265 1200 91 24% 1 1.5 1 0.01 0.6% comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt 266 1100 85 96% 1 1.3 1 0.01 0.5% comp.sys.sequent 267 1100 84 26% 1 0.5 1 0.00 0.5% comp.society.futures 268 1100 83 29% 1 6.5 1 0.03 0.5% comp.ai.edu 269 1100 80 26% 100 110.5 90 0.52 0.5% comp.lang.rexx 270 1000 77 24% 17 17.5 17 0.09 0.5% comp.sys.encore 271 1000 74 26% 7 11.0 7 0.06 0.5% comp.sys.sgi 272 930 69 23% 2 4.1 3 0.02 0.4% sci.philosophy.meta 273 890 66 26% 12 14.0 14 0.08 0.4% comp.sys.zenith.z100 274 890 66 24% 1 0.8 1 0.00 0.4% comp.os.v 275 880 65 24% 1 1.4 1 0.01 0.4% comp.periphs.printers 276 820 61 26% 4 9.7 5 0.06 0.4% comp.sys.proteon 277 760 56 5% 97 132.8 127 0.90 0.4% alt.cyberpunk 278 740 55 23% 15 17.0 21 0.12 0.3% comp.edu.composition 279 650 48 25% 1 0.9 2 0.01 0.3% soc.culture.esperanto 280 380 28 18% 17 32.3 45 0.44 0.2% rec.equestrian