Xref: utzoo news.lists:778 news.groups:9319 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!decwrl!reid From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups Subject: BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PROPAGATION (APR 89) Message-ID: <39@apostrophe.dec.com> Date: 1 May 89 15:46:00 GMT Sender: reid@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 395 1800 86 50% 7 107.2 0% 0.05 0.4% bionet.sci-resources 396 1200 57 50% 7 25.4 0% 0.02 0.2% bionet.molbio.bio-matrix 397 890 42 50% 2 0.9 0% 0.00 0.2% bionet.molbio.genbank 398 860 41 50% 10 87.2 0% 0.08 0.2% bionet.molbio.news 399 6600 315 49% 171 352.8 6% 0.04 1.3% sci.edu 400 1600 75 49% 1 1.1 100% 0.00 0.3% bionet.software.contrib 401 23000 1109 47% 940 1964.1 19% 0.06 4.7% alt.fusion 402 3000 144 47% 20 43.5 0% 0.01 0.6% alt.co-ops 403 2900 139 47% 118 1044.3 0% 0.28 0.6% comp.soft-sys.andrew 404 1400 65 47% 60 67.6 0% 0.04 0.3% bionet.technology.conversion 405 440 21 46% 1 0.3 0% 0.00 0.1% bionet.molbio.ageing 406 3400 161 45% 720 1782.9 22% 0.38 0.7% talk.politics.guns 407 19000 902 37% 229 607.9 0% 0.02 3.8% alt.sex.bondage 408 1600 74 29% 9 9.9 0% 0.00 0.3% bionet.population-bio 409 2300 107 27% 6 19.6 0% 0.00 0.5% alt.cyb-sys 410 1900 92 24% 16 47.0 7% 0.01 0.4% bionet.software 411 2100 100 8% 152 284.6 2% 0.02 0.4% soc.culture.asian.american 412 1700 83 8% 4 23.6 0% 0.00 0.4% comp.sys.isis 413 340 16 1% 174 335.7 37% 0.02 0.1% unix-pc.general 414 270 13 1% 11 289.1 36% 0.03 0.1% unix-pc.sources