Xref: utzoo news.lists:741 news.groups:8735 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!decwrl!reid From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups Subject: BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PROPAGATION (MAR 89) Message-ID: <1314@bacchus.dec.com> Date: 5 Apr 89 09:20:12 GMT Sender: vixie@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 402 420 22 48% 2 1.2 0% 0.00 0.1% bionet.molbio.gene-express 403 2000 105 47% 189 353.1 2% 0.14 0.5% soc.culture.turkish 404 1700 88 47% 4 96.7 0% 0.04 0.4% bionet.sci-resources 405 1100 58 47% 3 30.6 0% 0.02 0.3% bionet.molbio.news 406 980 51 47% 7 20.6 14% 0.02 0.2% bionet.software.contrib 407 3000 158 46% 28 50.8 0% 0.01 0.7% gnu.g++.lib.bug 408 2000 102 46% 3 2.2 0% 0.00 0.5% bionet.software.pc.comm 409 1500 77 46% 8 9.6 0% 0.00 0.3% bionet.software.pc 410 2700 138 42% 19 24.5 0% 0.01 0.6% comp.protocols.kerberos 411 1200 61 42% 23 56.5 0% 0.03 0.3% bionet.technology.conversion 412 540 28 42% 1 4.1 0% 0.01 0.1% bionet.molbio.ageing 413 3100 162 39% 37 79.3 14% 0.02 0.7% alt.co-ops 414 3100 163 33% 112 216.2 0% 0.04 0.7% comp.soft-sys.andrew 415 1700 86 12% 25 30.7 8% 0.00 0.4% rec.ham-radio.swap 416 1300 70 10% 31 61.0 14% 0.01 0.3% sci.chem 417 1300 67 10% 1 3.4 0% 0.00 0.3% comp.ai.shells 418 5300 274 8% 126 177.3 0% 0.00 1.2% alt.sex.bondage 419 400 21 3% 211 547.2 6% 0.07 0.1% talk.politics.guns 420 190 10 1% 189 338.0 48% 0.03 0.0% unix-pc.general 421 170 9 1% 18 264.3 47% 0.03 0.0% unix-pc.sources