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Subject: BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY (JUN 88)
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Date: 2 Jul 88 07:39:05 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)
       |     |     |      |     |      +-- Crossposting percentage
       |     |     |      |     |      |    +-- Cost ratio: $US/month/reader
       |     |     |      |     |      |    |       +-- Share: % of newsreaders
       |     |     |      |     |      |    |       |   who read this group.
       V     V     V      V     V      V    V       V
335  1100   110   25%    93  283.1     0%  0.13    0.6%  gnu.emacs.bug
336  1100   106   60%     2    3.2     0%  0.00    0.5%  sci.philosophy.meta
337  1100   105   85%    92  194.3     6%  0.29    0.5%  rec.equestrian
338  1100   104   48%    24   91.6     0%  0.08    0.5%  comp.protocols.iso.x400.gateway
339   990    96   25%    85  333.8     0%  0.16    0.5%  gnu.gcc.bug
340   990    96   24%    10   10.4     0%  0.00    0.5%  bionet.general
341   980    95   59%     1    0.9     0%  0.00    0.5%  comp.lang.lisp.franz
342   880    85   25%    79  318.8     0%  0.18    0.4%  gnu.g++.bug
343   850    82   25%     7   10.5     0%  0.01    0.4%  gnu.gdb.bug
344   770    74   58%    31   44.8     0%  0.07    0.4%  soc.culture.esperanto
345   720    70   56%     4    4.0     0%  0.01    0.4%  rec.games.vectrex
346   580    56   92%     1    0.5     0%  0.00    0.3%  comp.sys.celerity
347   530    51   95%     1    1.1     0%  0.00    0.3%  comp.sys.ridge
348   470    45   92%     2   58.1     0%  0.22    0.2%  soc.politics.arms-d
349   440    43   57%     1    1.1     0%  0.00    0.2%  comp.dcom.lans.hyperchannel
350   420    41   23%     2    1.8     0%  0.00    0.2%  bionet.software.pc
351   410    40   23%     6   11.1     0%  0.01    0.2%  bionet.molbio.bio-matrix
352   400    39   58%     1    2.1     0%  0.01    0.2%  comp.sys.intel.ipsc310
353   360    35   23%     5    3.9     0%  0.00    0.2%  bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts
354   220    21   23%     1    1.0     0%  0.00    0.1%  bionet.software.pc.comm