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Subject: BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY (DEC 87)
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Date: 2 Jan 88 04:28:44 GMT
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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
280  1500   126   44%    10   15.4     6   2.90    0.7%  comp.os.v
281  1400   123   91%     2   83.9     2  35.00    0.7%  soc.politics.arms-d
282  1400   119   97%     1    0.6     1   0.26    0.7%  news.stargate
283  1400   118   15%    24   30.4    17   2.10    0.7%  comp.ivideodisc
284  1400   116   97%     2   75.2     2  34.00    0.7%  comp.os.os9
285  1300   111   93%     5    5.7     4   2.60    0.6%  soc.culture.greek
286  1300   109   95%     2    4.1     2   2.00    0.6%  comp.sys.ti
287  1200   106   86%    17   43.2    14  20.00    0.6%  rec.skydiving
288  1200   105   42%    17   16.1    14   3.70    0.6%  rec.games.vectrex
289  1200   104   42%     4   15.0     3   3.40    0.6%  comp.lang.clu
290  1200   102   44%     2   11.7     2   2.80    0.6%  sci.bio.technology
291  1100    97   46%     1    1.1     1   0.31    0.6%  comp.sys.zenith
292  1100    94   44%     1    1.4     1   0.37    0.5%  comp.periphs.printers
293   940    80   45%    35   42.3    37  13.00    0.5%  comp.lang.rexx
294   880    75   38%    60  103.8    68  29.00    0.4%  comp.lang.asm370
295   860    73   97%     1    2.1     1   1.50    0.4%  comp.sys.sequent
296   790    67   42%     4    4.1     5   1.40    0.4%  comp.sys.northstar
297   750    64   44%     7   14.6     9   5.60    0.4%  soc.culture.esperanto
298   530    45    9%    35   49.3    67   5.50    0.3%  rec.games.moria
299   480    41   40%     1  100.1     2  55.00    0.2%  rec.mag.fsfnet