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Subject: BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY (JUL 88)
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Date: 1 Aug 88 10:04:36 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
342  1200   107   53%     3   42.9     0%  0.04    0.6%  comp.protocols.iso.x400
343  1200   106   97%     1    1.4     0%  0.00    0.6%  comp.std.mumps
344  1200   105   23%     3    3.9   100%  0.00    0.6%  comp.ibm.binaries.d
345  1100   104   59%     3    8.1     0%  0.01    0.5%  comp.lang.lisp.franz
346  1100   101   28%    28   45.7     0%  0.02    0.5%  bionet.general
347  1000    95   58%     3    2.6     0%  0.00    0.5%  comp.lang.lisp.x
348   890    81   60%    16   26.3     0%  0.03    0.4%  soc.culture.esperanto
349   810    73   92%     3   57.2     0%  0.12    0.4%  soc.politics.arms-d
350   740    67   39%     7    6.3     0%  0.01    0.4%  gnu.emacs.vms
351   730    66   58%     2    1.1     0%  0.00    0.3%  comp.lang.forth.mac
352   660    60   47%     5  166.7     0%  0.22    0.3%  alt.sources.amiga
353   530    48   58%     2    5.2     0%  0.01    0.3%  comp.dcom.lans.hyperchannel
354   490    44   55%     3    4.7     0%  0.01    0.2%  comp.lang.idl
355   340    31   39%     1    0.3     0%  0.00    0.2%  gnu.test
356   310    28   26%     9   11.3     0%  0.02    0.1%  bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts
357   260    24   55%     1   67.7     0%  0.27    0.1%  rec.mag.fsfnet
358   190    17    4%    20   23.2    21%  0.01    0.1%  alt.rhode_island
359    66     6    0%   231  410.5    40%  0.06    0.0%  unix-pc.general
360    66     6    0%    13  350.7     8%  0.03    0.0%  unix-pc.sources
361    22     2    0%     6    7.5    17%  0.00    0.0%  unix-pc.bugs