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From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid)
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Subject: BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PROPAGATION (JAN 89)
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Date: 5 Apr 89 09:19:43 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
381  1800    95   44%    10   29.1     0%  0.01    0.4%  bionet.jobs
382  1400    75   44%     4    8.8     0%  0.00    0.4%  bionet.molbio.evolution
383  1100    55   44%    10   16.8     0%  0.01    0.3%  bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts
384   750    39   44%     3    3.9    33%  0.00    0.2%  bionet.molbio.gene-express
385   400    21   44%     3    2.9     0%  0.01    0.1%  bionet.molbio.proteins
386  1600    82   43%     8   34.8     0%  0.02    0.4%  bionet.sci-resources
387  1300    69   43%     9   91.4     0%  0.05    0.3%  bionet.molbio.news
388   730    38   43%     3    5.2     0%  0.01    0.2%  bionet.molbio.yeast
389   560    29   43%     1    0.3     0%  0.00    0.1%  bionet.molbio.oncogenes
390   520    27   43%     1    0.3     0%  0.00    0.1%  bionet.software.contrib
391   440    23   43%     1    0.4     0%  0.00    0.1%  bionet.software.pc.comm
392   980    51   42%     1   20.3     0%  0.01    0.2%  bionet.software.pc
393   770    40   42%     2    1.8     0%  0.00    0.2%  bionet.molbio.genbank
394   460    24   41%     2    2.5     0%  0.00    0.1%  bionet.molbio.pir
395   790    41   37%     3    3.3     0%  0.00    0.2%  bionet.molbio.ageing
396   920    48   13%    12   14.5     0%  0.00    0.2%  alt.co-ops
397  2900   153    8%   128  192.1     5%  0.01    0.7%  soc.couples
398   150     8    1%    42 1134.8     0%  0.13    0.0%  unix-pc.sources
399    77     4    1%     5    8.1    40%  0.00    0.0%  unix-pc.bugs
400   190    10    0%   177  316.6    32%  0.02    0.0%  unix-pc.general