Xref: utzoo news.lists:437 news.groups:3142 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att-cb!att-ih!pacbell!ames!amdcad!decwrl!reid From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups Subject: BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PROPAGATION (MAR 88) Message-ID: <12422@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: 3 Apr 88 03:42:52 GMT Sender: reid@decwrl.DEC.COM Organization: DEC Western Research Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif., USA Lines: 34 Approved: reid@decwrl.dec.com 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 297 3200 243 51% 2 41.5 0 0.05 1.3% comp.ai.edu 298 2900 226 51% 12 33.7 4 0.04 1.2% comp.sys.handhelds 299 1900 143 51% 22 59.4 12 0.11 0.8% sci.bio.technology 300 700 54 51% 1 1.3 2 0.01 0.3% comp.ai.vision 301 3700 282 50% 22 42.5 6 0.04 1.5% comp.parallel 302 3100 237 50% 2 3.3 0 0.00 1.3% comp.theory.cell-automata 303 740 57 50% 7 17.9 9 0.08 0.3% soc.culture.esperanto 304 580 45 50% 2 3.2 4 0.02 0.2% comp.os.v 305 990 76 49% 2 1.5 2 0.01 0.4% comp.lang.lisp.franz 306 1700 134 48% 24 24.1 14 0.05 0.7% comp.theory.dynamic-sys 307 970 75 48% 2 3.6 2 0.01 0.4% sci.philosophy.meta 308 600 46 48% 2 2.4 4 0.01 0.2% comp.lang.clu 309 470 36 48% 1 5.2 3 0.04 0.2% comp.edu.composition 310 1700 129 47% 7 11.5 4 0.02 0.7% comp.unix.cray 311 1500 114 46% 1 9.4 0 0.02 0.6% comp.lang.visual 312 290 22 45% 1 102.7 4 1.10 0.1% rec.mag.fsfnet 313 1600 126 44% 60 76.8 37 0.14 0.7% comp.lang.asm370 314 2400 185 37% 144 343.5 60 0.36 1.0% alt.individualism 315 1800 135 16% 35 43.5 19 0.03 0.7% comp.unix.aux 316 1700 134 16% 47 70.4 27 0.05 0.7% comp.mail.sendmail