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Subject: BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PROPAGATION (FEB 88)
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Date: 1 Mar 88 08:47:31 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
282  2000   177   47%    25   51.4    12   0.09    0.9%  comp.lang.icon
283  1900   165   47%    88  135.9    46   0.24    0.9%  alt.aquaria
284  1200   102   47%    14   18.2    11   0.05    0.5%  comp.sys.zenith
285  1300   116   46%     2    5.1     2   0.01    0.6%  comp.theory.cell-automata
286  1300   116   46%     1    5.1     1   0.01    0.6%  comp.ai.edu
287   930    82   46%   107  137.2   115   0.48    0.4%  comp.lang.rexx
288  3000   270   45%    25   65.7     8   0.07    1.4%  alt.hypertext
289  1200   103   45%    15   32.4    13   0.09    0.5%  sci.bio.technology
290   770    68   45%    17   52.7    22   0.22    0.4%  soc.culture.esperanto
291  1900   170   44%     4    4.6     2   0.01    0.9%  comp.sys.ibm.pc.net
292   860    76   44%     8   11.3     9   0.04    0.4%  comp.sys.handhelds
293   780    69   43%     1    5.3     1   0.02    0.4%  comp.theory.dynamic-sys
294   720    64   43%     1    0.7     1   0.00    0.3%  rec.games.vectrex
295  1300   119   42%     1    2.6     1   0.01    0.6%  comp.os.aos
296   450    40   42%     4    3.8     9   0.03    0.2%  comp.lang.forth.mac
297   360    32   41%     1  104.5     3   0.85    0.2%  rec.mag.fsfnet
298   900    80   38%    62   63.2    69   0.19    0.4%  comp.lang.asm370
299  2300   207   36%   192  597.0    83   0.67    1.1%  talk.politics.soviet
300  2100   182   13%    52  132.1    25   0.06    1.0%  comp.sources.games.bugs
301   620    55    3%     8    8.7    13   0.00    0.3%  comp.sys.mac.programmer