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 PROPAGATION (SEP 87) Message-ID: <11729@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: Thu, 1-Oct-87 08:50:36 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.11729 Posted: Thu Oct 1 08:50:36 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 5-Oct-87 04:30:42 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:257 news.groups:1613 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 261 1100 80 26% 100 110.5 90 0.52 0.5% comp.lang.rexx 262 1000 74 26% 7 11.0 7 0.06 0.5% comp.sys.sgi 263 890 66 26% 12 14.0 14 0.08 0.4% comp.sys.zenith.z100 264 820 61 26% 4 9.7 5 0.06 0.4% comp.sys.proteon 265 1600 122 25% 7 19.0 4 0.06 0.8% sci.bio.technology 266 1500 113 25% 4 18.1 2 0.06 0.7% rec.games.programmer 267 650 48 25% 1 0.9 2 0.01 0.3% soc.culture.esperanto 268 1600 119 24% 8 7.9 5 0.03 0.7% comp.unix.cray 269 1300 94 24% 34 70.9 26 0.28 0.6% soc.culture.japan 270 1200 91 24% 1 1.5 1 0.01 0.6% comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt 271 1000 77 24% 17 17.5 17 0.09 0.5% comp.sys.encore 272 890 66 24% 1 0.8 1 0.00 0.4% comp.os.v 273 880 65 24% 1 1.4 1 0.01 0.4% comp.periphs.printers 274 1500 112 23% 8 8.1 5 0.03 0.7% comp.sys.dec.micro 275 1500 109 23% 78 141.3 52 0.48 0.7% comp.editors 276 930 69 23% 2 4.1 3 0.02 0.4% sci.philosophy.meta 277 740 55 23% 15 17.0 21 0.12 0.3% comp.edu.composition 278 380 28 18% 17 32.3 45 0.44 0.2% rec.equestrian 279 2600 193 15% 217 304.4 83 0.60 1.2% alt.flame 280 760 56 5% 97 132.8 127 0.90 0.4% alt.cyberpunk