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From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid)
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Subject: BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PROPAGATION (SEP 88)
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Date: 2 Oct 88 17:40:39 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
351   930    67   55%     1    1.0     0%  0.00    0.3%  comp.protocols.iso.x400
352  2700   194   54%     6   11.2     0%  0.00    1.0%  gnu.gdb.bug
353  1900   135   53%     9    9.8     0%  0.00    0.7%  gnu.emacs.vms
354  6900   496   52%     3   50.1    33%  0.01    2.5%  gnu.announce
355  3100   223   52%    13   11.6     0%  0.00    1.1%  gnu.emacs.lisp.manual
356  3600   260   47%    62   87.0     9%  0.02    1.3%  alt.california
357  3700   267   44%    22   35.5     5%  0.01    1.4%  gnu.utils.bug
358  1700   119   37%    17   21.0     6%  0.01    0.6%  alt.great-lakes
359  1800   128   36%    60   85.6     0%  0.03    0.6%  alt.fishing
360  1400   102   36%    43   66.7    17%  0.03    0.5%  alt.rhode_island
361  1100    82   36%     4   10.0     0%  0.01    0.4%  bionet.general
362  1500   111   35%    10   20.4     0%  0.01    0.6%  bionet.jobs
363   470    34   35%     1    6.4     0%  0.01    0.2%  bionet.software.pc
364  3200   231   32%     7   13.0    14%  0.00    1.2%  comp.protocols.nfs
365  2000   143   29%    81  151.2     7%  0.04    0.7%  alt.activism
366  1900   136   19%    75  126.5     4%  0.02    0.7%  alt.bbs
367  1200    90   11%    12   17.9     0%  0.00    0.5%  gnu.emacs.gnus
368    69     5    0%   131  245.4    41%  0.03    0.0%  unix-pc.general
369    55     4    0%    27  753.8     8%  0.11    0.0%  unix-pc.sources
370    42     3    0%    42   82.0    30%  0.02    0.0%  unix-pc.bugs