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Subject: BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PROPAGATION (JUN 88)
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Date: 2 Jul 88 07:39:12 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)
       |     |     |      |     |      +-- Crossposting percentage
       |     |     |      |     |      |    +-- Cost ratio: $US/month/reader
       |     |     |      |     |      |    |       +-- Share: % of newsreaders
       |     |     |      |     |      |    |       |   who read this group.
       V     V     V      V     V      V    V       V
335  1100   104   48%    24   91.6     0%  0.08    0.5%  comp.protocols.iso.x400.gateway
336  2200   208   39%   110  137.4    14%  0.05    1.1%  alt.emusic
337  2900   281   33%    49  101.5     0%  0.02    1.4%  comp.society.women
338  1600   150   28%    28   50.1     0%  0.02    0.8%  alt.recovery
339  3700   362   25%     4   11.1     0%  0.00    1.9%  gnu.announce
340  2400   231   25%    35   55.8     0%  0.01    1.2%  gnu.emacs
341  1900   187   25%    37  113.2    14%  0.03    1.0%  gnu.gcc
342  1800   176   25%    15   16.1     0%  0.00    0.9%  gnu.g++
343  1500   148   25%     2    3.8   100%  0.00    0.8%  alt.birthright
344  1100   110   25%    93  283.1     0%  0.13    0.6%  gnu.emacs.bug
345   990    96   25%    85  333.8     0%  0.16    0.5%  gnu.gcc.bug
346   880    85   25%    79  318.8     0%  0.18    0.4%  gnu.g++.bug
347   850    82   25%     7   10.5     0%  0.01    0.4%  gnu.gdb.bug
348  1300   123   24%     4    6.4     0%  0.00    0.6%  gnu.emacs.lisp.manual
349   990    96   24%    10   10.4     0%  0.00    0.5%  bionet.general
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   360    35   23%     5    3.9     0%  0.00    0.2%  bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts
353   220    21   23%     1    1.0     0%  0.00    0.1%  bionet.software.pc.comm
354  1300   129   14%   257  256.9     0%  0.06    0.7%  alt.cult-movies