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From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid)
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Subject: BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY (DEC 88)
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Date: 1 Jan 89 12:09:36 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
369  1000    68   37%     9   36.9     0%  0.02    0.3%  bionet.molbio.news
370  1000    66   63%     1    0.9     0%  0.00    0.3%  comp.lang.rexx
371  1000    65   37%     3    3.2     0%  0.00    0.3%  bionet.molbio.genbank
372   990    64   38%     9  101.9     0%  0.07    0.3%  bionet.sci-resources
373   970    63   39%     6    5.9     0%  0.00    0.3%  bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts
374   920    60   92%     1   17.9     0%  0.03    0.3%  soc.politics.arms-d
375   910    59   37%     1    0.7     0%  0.00    0.2%  bionet.software.pc
376   880    57   67%    43   54.9     0%  0.07    0.2%  comp.lang.asm370
377   860    56   61%    26   30.3     0%  0.04    0.2%  comp.sys.ti.explorer
378   820    53   60%     2    2.7     0%  0.00    0.2%  comp.terminals.tty5620
379   780    51   59%     3   15.6     0%  0.02    0.2%  comp.terminals.bitgraph
380   770    50   42%     3   10.0     0%  0.01    0.2%  alt.rhode_island
381   770    50   37%     2    2.3     0%  0.00    0.2%  bionet.molbio.gene-org
382   690    45   28%     3    6.2     0%  0.00    0.2%  bionet.technology.conversion
383   650    42   37%     1    0.6     0%  0.00    0.2%  bionet.molbio.yeast
384   400    26   57%     1    1.8     0%  0.00    0.1%  comp.lang.clu
385   350    23   59%     1    1.2     0%  0.00    0.1%  comp.sys.intel.ipsc310
386   150    10    1%   145  250.4    35%  0.03    0.0%  unix-pc.general
387   150    10    1%    10  186.6    10%  0.03    0.0%  unix-pc.sources
388    77     5    1%     5    7.8    60%  0.00    0.0%  unix-pc.bugs