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Subject: BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PROPAGATION (DEC 87)
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Date: 2 Jan 88 04:28:51 GMT
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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
280  3400   287   46%     2   10.2     0   0.89    1.6%  comp.ai.edu
281  1500   132   46%    32   39.0    21   7.70    0.7%  comp.lang.icon
282  1100    97   46%     1    1.1     1   0.31    0.6%  comp.sys.zenith
283  3600   305   45%     7   90.4     1   7.40    1.7%  comp.music
284   940    80   45%    35   42.3    37  13.00    0.5%  comp.lang.rexx
285  2000   173   44%     4    9.3     2   1.30    1.0%  comp.theory.cell-automata
286  1500   126   44%    10   15.4     6   2.90    0.7%  comp.os.v
287  1200   102   44%     2   11.7     2   2.80    0.6%  sci.bio.technology
288  1100    94   44%     1    1.4     1   0.37    0.5%  comp.periphs.printers
289   750    64   44%     7   14.6     9   5.60    0.4%  soc.culture.esperanto
290  1800   153   43%    58   98.3    32  15.00    0.9%  alt.aquaria
291  2000   167   42%     1   10.7     0   1.50    0.9%  comp.mail.mhs.arpa
292  1200   105   42%    17   16.1    14   3.70    0.6%  rec.games.vectrex
293  1200   104   42%     4   15.0     3   3.40    0.6%  comp.lang.clu
294   790    67   42%     4    4.1     5   1.40    0.4%  comp.sys.northstar
295   480    41   40%     1  100.1     2  55.00    0.2%  rec.mag.fsfnet
296  1900   163   38%   214  547.1   112  71.00    0.9%  talk.politics.mideast
297   880    75   38%    60  103.8    68  29.00    0.4%  comp.lang.asm370
298  1400   118   15%    24   30.4    17   2.10    0.7%  comp.ivideodisc
299   530    45    9%    35   49.3    67   5.50    0.3%  rec.games.moria