Xref: utzoo news.lists:615 news.groups:5945 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!decwrl!reid From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups Subject: BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY (OCT 88) Message-ID: <16088@decwrl.dec.com> Date: 17 Apr 89 00:56:58 GMT Sender: reid@decwrl.dec.com Organization: DEC Western Research Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif., USA Lines: 34 Approved: reid@decwrl.dec.com 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 355 1500 107 94% 7 6.7 0% 0.01 0.5% comp.sys.tahoe 356 1500 104 40% 26 58.9 48% 0.03 0.5% alt.rhode_island 357 1200 85 56% 3 1.9 0% 0.00 0.4% comp.mail.multi-media 358 1100 79 76% 8 16.2 0% 0.02 0.4% comp.os.v 359 1100 78 91% 2 29.2 0% 0.04 0.4% soc.politics 360 890 63 57% 3 3.5 0% 0.00 0.3% comp.terminals.bitgraph 361 760 54 57% 3 1.2 0% 0.00 0.2% comp.sys.northstar 362 760 54 54% 4 4.3 0% 0.01 0.2% rec.games.vectrex 363 750 53 58% 8 24.0 0% 0.03 0.2% soc.culture.esperanto 364 750 53 57% 9 14.4 0% 0.02 0.2% comp.sys.ti.explorer 365 680 48 37% 2 3.2 0% 0.00 0.2% bionet.molbio.genbank 366 650 46 36% 11 31.2 0% 0.03 0.2% bionet.molbio.bio-matrix 367 620 44 38% 1 0.5 0% 0.00 0.2% bionet.molbio.news 368 580 41 36% 2 4.9 0% 0.01 0.2% bionet.molbio.evolution 369 560 40 92% 1 13.3 0% 0.04 0.2% soc.politics.arms-d 370 450 32 37% 2 1.0 0% 0.00 0.1% bionet.software.pc 371 420 30 37% 5 5.2 0% 0.01 0.1% bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts 372 200 14 0% 118 229.7 59% 0.02 0.1% unix-pc.general 373 180 13 0% 37 1332.0 3% 0.10 0.1% unix-pc.sources 374 140 10 0% 9 16.0 11% 0.00 0.0% unix-pc.bugs