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From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid)
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Subject: BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PROPAGATION (AUG 88)
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Date: 3 Sep 88 09:51:43 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
341  2900   233   54%   169  577.2     1%  0.19    1.2%  gnu.gcc.bug
342  2300   185   54%    69  141.6     0%  0.06    0.9%  gnu.g++.bug
343  1800   146   54%    41  111.1     3%  0.06    0.7%  alt.recovery
344  4100   323   53%    15   16.7    14%  0.00    1.6%  gnu.g++
345  2100   167   53%     5   12.9     0%  0.01    0.8%  gnu.gdb.bug
346  3400   272   51%     9   10.4     0%  0.00    1.4%  gnu.emacs.lisp.manual
347  1700   137   51%     7   18.6     0%  0.01    0.7%  gnu.emacs.vms
348  2400   192   50%     2    7.3     0%  0.00    1.0%  gnu.announce
349  3400   274   44%   111  179.7    13%  0.04    1.4%  alt.california
350  1100    90   33%    16   27.1     0%  0.01    0.5%  bionet.general
351   440    35   32%     9   14.7     0%  0.02    0.2%  bionet.software.pc
352   330    26   32%     6    4.9     0%  0.01    0.1%  bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts
353   260    21   31%     1    0.3     0%  0.00    0.1%  bionet.molbio.yeast
354  1300   105   30%    72  103.5     7%  0.04    0.5%  alt.rhode_island
355  1600   126   26%    70   92.4     9%  0.03    0.6%  alt.great-lakes
356  1100    90   22%    15   45.9     0%  0.02    0.5%  gnu.utils.bug
357   350    28   16%     3    3.6     0%  0.00    0.1%  bionet.molbio.swiss-prot
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