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From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid)
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Subject: BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PROPAGATION (DEC 88)
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Date: 1 Jan 89 12:09:41 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
369  2700   177   39%    84  253.9     4%  0.07    0.7%  alt.prose
370  1800   116   39%     3    5.3    33%  0.00    0.5%  bionet.jobs
371   970    63   39%     6    5.9     0%  0.00    0.3%  bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts
372  2900   188   38%    10   20.5    20%  0.00    0.8%  bionet.general
373  1700   110   38%     5    9.6     0%  0.00    0.5%  bionet.molbio.evolution
374   990    64   38%     9  101.9     0%  0.07    0.3%  bionet.sci-resources
375  1000    68   37%     9   36.9     0%  0.02    0.3%  bionet.molbio.news
376  1000    65   37%     3    3.2     0%  0.00    0.3%  bionet.molbio.genbank
377   910    59   37%     1    0.7     0%  0.00    0.2%  bionet.software.pc
378   770    50   37%     2    2.3     0%  0.00    0.2%  bionet.molbio.gene-org
379   650    42   37%     1    0.6     0%  0.00    0.2%  bionet.molbio.yeast
380  5200   336   36%    39   57.8    16%  0.01    1.4%  comp.org.ieee
381  1900   121   36%    27   67.8     0%  0.02    0.5%  comp.lang.eiffel
382  1600   102   32%    55  114.7     2%  0.04    0.4%  alt.prose.d
383  1600   106   29%     6   14.2     0%  0.00    0.4%  sci.military
384   690    45   28%     3    6.2     0%  0.00    0.2%  bionet.technology.conversion
385  1600   105   14%     8   12.3     0%  0.00    0.4%  rec.arts.misc
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