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Subject: BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY (MAY 89)
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Date: 1 Jun 89 12:52:49 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
395  1600    78   69%     3    1.6     0%  0.00    0.3%  comp.protocols.iso.dev-environ
396  1600    78   56%    22   54.5    10%  0.03    0.3%  alt.prose.d
397  1600    75   49%     1    1.1   100%  0.00    0.3%  bionet.software.contrib
398  1600    74   29%     9    9.9     0%  0.00    0.3%  bionet.population-bio
399  1400    68   73%    51   98.4     2%  0.08    0.3%  comp.sys.ti.explorer
400  1400    67   79%     2    2.4     0%  0.00    0.3%  comp.os.rsts
401  1400    67   67%     1    0.9     0%  0.00    0.3%  comp.protocols.pcnet
402  1400    66   70%     3    5.6     0%  0.00    0.3%  comp.lang.clu
403  1400    65   47%    60   67.6     0%  0.04    0.3%  bionet.technology.conversion
404  1200    57   50%     7   25.4     0%  0.02    0.2%  bionet.molbio.bio-matrix
405  1200    56   72%    36   72.5     0%  0.07    0.2%  comp.lang.asm370
406  1100    53   51%    20   22.4     0%  0.02    0.2%  bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts
407   890    42   50%     2    0.9     0%  0.00    0.2%  bionet.molbio.genbank
408   860    41   50%    10   87.2     0%  0.08    0.2%  bionet.molbio.news
409   840    40   51%     1    0.5     0%  0.00    0.2%  bionet.molbio.evolution
410   760    36   71%     1    0.7     0%  0.00    0.2%  comp.lang.lisp.franz
411   700    33   91%     1    1.2     0%  0.00    0.1%  comp.sys.celerity
412   440    21   46%     1    0.3     0%  0.00    0.1%  bionet.molbio.ageing
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