Xref: utzoo news.lists:616 news.groups:5946 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 PROPAGATION (OCT 88) Message-ID: <16089@decwrl.dec.com> Date: 17 Apr 89 00:57:07 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 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 355 5800 413 45% 21 32.7 20% 0.00 1.9% comp.protocols.nfs 356 2000 140 45% 15 16.7 0% 0.01 0.6% alt.great-lakes 357 2700 193 42% 37 60.5 6% 0.02 0.9% alt.activism 358 1500 104 40% 26 58.9 48% 0.03 0.5% alt.rhode_island 359 1700 123 39% 12 59.5 17% 0.02 0.6% bionet.general 360 4000 283 38% 26 37.1 4% 0.01 1.3% gnu.emacs.gnus 361 620 44 38% 1 0.5 0% 0.00 0.2% bionet.molbio.news 362 4800 341 37% 81 203.9 13% 0.03 1.5% alt.bbs 363 1700 120 37% 15 28.2 0% 0.01 0.5% bionet.jobs 364 680 48 37% 2 3.2 0% 0.00 0.2% bionet.molbio.genbank 365 450 32 37% 2 1.0 0% 0.00 0.1% bionet.software.pc 366 420 30 37% 5 5.2 0% 0.01 0.1% bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts 367 650 46 36% 11 31.2 0% 0.03 0.2% bionet.molbio.bio-matrix 368 580 41 36% 2 4.9 0% 0.01 0.2% bionet.molbio.evolution 369 8900 633 35% 200 384.5 16% 0.03 2.8% alt.next 370 1600 115 28% 10 47.3 0% 0.01 0.5% comp.archives 371 7900 558 26% 519 1018.3 5% 0.06 2.5% comp.sys.next 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