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Subject: BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PROPAGATION (JUL 88)
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Date: 1 Aug 88 10:04:41 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
342   660    60   47%     5  166.7     0%  0.22    0.3%  alt.sources.amiga
343  3100   280   43%    35   41.3     0%  0.01    1.5%  gnu.gcc
344  2100   192   43%     8    9.7     0%  0.00    1.0%  gnu.g++
345  2000   178   43%    91  277.7     0%  0.11    0.9%  gnu.emacs.bug
346  3700   332   42%    48  151.5     9%  0.03    1.7%  gnu.emacs
347  1600   147   42%    87  309.7     4%  0.15    0.8%  gnu.gcc.bug
348  3500   313   41%     2   13.0     0%  0.00    1.6%  gnu.announce
349  1500   135   41%    45  166.7     2%  0.09    0.7%  gnu.g++.bug
350  1400   126   41%    12   47.6     0%  0.03    0.7%  gnu.gdb.bug
351  2200   203   40%    11   11.3     0%  0.00    1.1%  gnu.emacs.lisp.manual
352   740    67   39%     7    6.3     0%  0.01    0.4%  gnu.emacs.vms
353   340    31   39%     1    0.3     0%  0.00    0.2%  gnu.test
354  3100   277   30%   217  283.6     5%  0.05    1.5%  alt.california
355  1100   101   28%    28   45.7     0%  0.02    0.5%  bionet.general
356   310    28   26%     9   11.3     0%  0.02    0.1%  bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts
357  1200   105   23%     3    3.9   100%  0.00    0.6%  comp.ibm.binaries.d
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