Xref: utzoo news.lists:379 news.groups:2421 Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!mordor!sri-spam!rutgers!mcnc!decvax!decwrl!reid From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups Subject: BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY (JAN 88) Message-ID: <12316@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: 1 Feb 88 18:30:11 GMT Sender: reid@decwrl.DEC.COM Organization: DEC Western Research Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif., USA Lines: 33 Approved: reid@decwrl.dec.com 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 282 1300 116 86% 30 55.6 23 0.26 0.6% rec.skydiving 283 1300 116 81% 50 95.1 38 0.42 0.6% rec.equestrian 284 1300 116 46% 2 5.1 2 0.01 0.6% comp.theory.cell-automata 285 1300 116 46% 1 5.1 1 0.01 0.6% comp.ai.edu 286 1300 111 96% 1 1.3 1 0.01 0.6% comp.sys.ti 287 1200 108 93% 10 18.0 8 0.10 0.6% soc.culture.greek 288 1200 103 45% 15 32.4 13 0.09 0.5% sci.bio.technology 289 1200 102 47% 14 18.2 11 0.05 0.5% comp.sys.zenith 290 1100 95 95% 1 0.9 1 0.01 0.5% misc.psi 291 930 82 46% 107 137.2 115 0.48 0.4% comp.lang.rexx 292 900 80 38% 62 63.2 69 0.19 0.4% comp.lang.asm370 293 870 77 89% 1 1.4 1 0.01 0.4% comp.sys.celerity 294 860 76 95% 2 2.6 3 0.02 0.4% comp.sys.ridge 295 860 76 44% 8 11.3 9 0.04 0.4% comp.sys.handhelds 296 780 69 43% 1 5.3 1 0.02 0.4% comp.theory.dynamic-sys 297 770 68 45% 17 52.7 22 0.22 0.4% soc.culture.esperanto 298 720 64 43% 1 0.7 1 0.00 0.3% rec.games.vectrex 299 620 55 3% 8 8.7 13 0.00 0.3% comp.sys.mac.programmer 300 450 40 42% 4 3.8 9 0.03 0.2% comp.lang.forth.mac 301 360 32 41% 1 104.5 3 0.85 0.2% rec.mag.fsfnet