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From: reid@decwrl.DEC.COM (Brian Reid)
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Subject: BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY (OCT 87)
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Date: Sun, 1-Nov-87 11:16:50 EST
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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
269  1400   113   87%    10   14.1     7   0.06    0.7%  rec.skydiving
270  1400   111   95%     2    2.8     2   0.01    0.7%  comp.sys.ti
271  1400   111   93%     1    0.6     1   0.00    0.7%  soc.culture.greek
272  1400   109   59%     7   10.2     5   0.04    0.6%  comp.os.xinu
273  1300   104   57%    22   50.3    17   0.23    0.6%  comp.sys.celerity
274  1300   104   37%    17   19.3    13   0.09    0.6%  comp.os.v
275  1200    96   37%     8   17.1     7   0.08    0.6%  comp.music
276  1200    95   61%    48   40.1    40   0.20    0.6%  comp.sys.zenith.z100
277  1200    91   58%     2    5.1     2   0.02    0.5%  sci.lang.japan
278  1100    89   95%     1    0.8     1   0.00    0.5%  comp.os.eunice
279  1100    85   36%     1    0.8     1   0.00    0.5%  comp.unix.cray
280  1000    80   52%    31   55.3    31   0.33    0.5%  rec.equestrian
281   960    76   91%     1    0.8     1   0.00    0.5%  rec.food.recipes
282   940    74   38%    40   48.0    42   0.30    0.4%  comp.lang.rexx
283   900    71   38%    11   17.8    12   0.12    0.4%  soc.culture.esperanto
284   840    66   60%     5    7.1     6   0.05    0.4%  comp.sys.sgi
285   810    64   60%    17   22.0    21   0.16    0.4%  comp.sys.proteon
286   710    56   31%    24   31.6    34   0.26    0.3%  comp.lang.asm370
287   610    48   36%     2   11.5     4   0.11    0.3%  comp.lang.clu
288   460    36   59%     4    5.7     9   0.07    0.2%  comp.sys.tahoe