Xref: utzoo news.lists:742 news.groups:8736 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 POPULARITY (MAR 89) Message-ID: <1313@bacchus.dec.com> Date: 5 Apr 89 09:20:10 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 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 402 1000 53 48% 1 0.5 0% 0.00 0.2% bionet.molbio.evolution 403 980 51 48% 8 9.5 0% 0.01 0.2% bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts 404 980 51 47% 7 20.6 14% 0.02 0.2% bionet.software.contrib 405 850 44 91% 1 22.7 0% 0.04 0.2% soc.politics.arms-d 406 810 42 66% 3 2.0 0% 0.00 0.2% comp.edu.composition 407 730 38 67% 2 2.4 0% 0.00 0.2% comp.protocols.iso.x400.gateway 408 710 37 92% 3 2.7 0% 0.01 0.2% comp.sys.celerity 409 690 36 96% 1 1.6 0% 0.00 0.2% comp.std.mumps 410 650 34 48% 3 1.9 0% 0.00 0.2% bionet.molbio.yeast 411 620 32 94% 4 13.2 50% 0.03 0.1% comp.sys.ridge 412 600 31 48% 3 1.8 0% 0.00 0.1% bionet.molbio.plant 413 540 28 64% 1 0.5 0% 0.00 0.1% comp.lang.forth.mac 414 540 28 42% 1 4.1 0% 0.01 0.1% bionet.molbio.ageing 415 500 26 48% 2 4.2 50% 0.01 0.1% bionet.molbio.proteins 416 460 24 62% 1 103.1 0% 0.23 0.1% rec.mag.fsfnet 417 420 22 48% 2 1.2 0% 0.00 0.1% bionet.molbio.gene-express 418 400 21 3% 211 547.2 6% 0.07 0.1% talk.politics.guns 419 380 20 77% 12 19.9 0% 0.07 0.1% comp.os.rsts 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