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Subject: BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY (AUG 88)
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Date: 3 Sep 88 09:51:34 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
341  1300   106   93%     2    1.8   100%  0.00    0.5%  comp.sys.tahoe
342  1300   105   30%    72  103.5     7%  0.04    0.5%  alt.rhode_island
343  1300   103   79%     1    1.1     0%  0.00    0.5%  comp.os.rsts
344  1100    91   59%     2    2.0     0%  0.00    0.5%  comp.lang.rexx
345  1100    90   33%    16   27.1     0%  0.01    0.5%  bionet.general
346  1100    90   22%    15   45.9     0%  0.02    0.5%  gnu.utils.bug
347   990    79   56%     2    1.8     0%  0.00    0.4%  comp.protocols.pup
348   950    76   62%     1    1.3     0%  0.00    0.4%  sci.philosophy.meta
349   940    75   60%     2    2.9     0%  0.00    0.4%  comp.lang.lisp.franz
350   670    53   56%     1   10.6     0%  0.02    0.3%  comp.mail.multi-media
351   620    49   60%     6   12.6     0%  0.02    0.2%  soc.culture.esperanto
352   580    46   58%     2    1.9     0%  0.00    0.2%  comp.sys.intel.ipsc310
353   570    45   95%     1    0.8     0%  0.00    0.2%  comp.sys.ridge
354   440    35   32%     9   14.7     0%  0.02    0.2%  bionet.software.pc
355   350    28   16%     3    3.6     0%  0.00    0.1%  bionet.molbio.swiss-prot
356   330    26   32%     6    4.9     0%  0.01    0.1%  bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts
357   260    21   31%     1    0.3     0%  0.00    0.1%  bionet.molbio.yeast
358    63     5    0%    92  154.2    38%  0.02    0.0%  unix-pc.general
359    50     4    0%     5   22.2    20%  0.00    0.0%  unix-pc.sources
360    13     1    0%    15   28.9    21%  0.01    0.0%  unix-pc.bugs