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From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid)
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Subject: BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY (JAN 89)
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Date: 5 Apr 89 09:19:40 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
381   940    49   91%     1    5.6     0%  0.01    0.2%  soc.politics.arms-d
382   920    48   13%    12   14.5     0%  0.00    0.2%  alt.co-ops
383   860    45   63%     1    2.5     0%  0.00    0.2%  comp.terminals.tty5620
384   840    44   61%     3    4.1     0%  0.00    0.2%  comp.sys.northstar
385   790    41   58%     1    0.3     0%  0.00    0.2%  comp.protocols.pup
386   790    41   37%     3    3.3     0%  0.00    0.2%  bionet.molbio.ageing
387   770    40   42%     2    1.8     0%  0.00    0.2%  bionet.molbio.genbank
388   750    39   44%     3    3.9    33%  0.00    0.2%  bionet.molbio.gene-express
389   730    38   43%     3    5.2     0%  0.01    0.2%  bionet.molbio.yeast
390   650    34   61%     1    3.7     0%  0.01    0.2%  comp.lang.clu
391   560    29   43%     1    0.3     0%  0.00    0.1%  bionet.molbio.oncogenes
392   520    27   43%     1    0.3     0%  0.00    0.1%  bionet.software.contrib
393   460    24   41%     2    2.5     0%  0.00    0.1%  bionet.molbio.pir
394   440    23   64%     1   20.5     0%  0.05    0.1%  comp.lang.lisp.franz
395   440    23   43%     1    0.4     0%  0.00    0.1%  bionet.software.pc.comm
396   400    21   75%     1    0.5     0%  0.00    0.1%  comp.os.rsts
397   400    21   44%     3    2.9     0%  0.01    0.1%  bionet.molbio.proteins
398   190    10    0%   177  316.6    32%  0.02    0.0%  unix-pc.general
399   150     8    1%    42 1134.8     0%  0.13    0.0%  unix-pc.sources
400    77     4    1%     5    8.1    40%  0.00    0.0%  unix-pc.bugs