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From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid)
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Subject: BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY (MAY 89)
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Date: 1 Jun 89 23:05:58 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
401  1500    72   72%     2    3.4     0%  0.00    0.3%  comp.os.aos
402  1300    62   95%     1    1.0     0%  0.00    0.3%  comp.sys.m68k.pc
403  1200    59   36%     8  107.3     0%  0.05    0.2%  bionet.journals.contents
404  1100    50   51%    26   44.7     0%  0.03    0.2%  bionet.technology.conversion
405  1000    49   92%     4    5.3    75%  0.01    0.2%  comp.sys.celerity
406   950    45   74%     2    4.0     0%  0.01    0.2%  comp.lang.lisp.franz
407   950    45   55%    30   83.1     0%  0.08    0.2%  bionet.molbio.bio-matrix
408   950    45   55%     3    2.5     0%  0.00    0.2%  bionet.molbio.news
409   870    41   55%     3   29.7     0%  0.03    0.2%  bionet.sci-resources
410   850    40   94%     1    1.3   100%  0.00    0.2%  comp.sys.ridge
411   850    40   72%     1    0.7     0%  0.00    0.2%  comp.lang.forth.mac
412   850    40   53%     4    8.9     0%  0.01    0.2%  bionet.molbio.pir
413   720    34   59%     1    1.7   100%  0.00    0.1%  comp.protocols.pcnet
414   610    29   55%     7    7.1     0%  0.01    0.1%  bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts
415   590    28   69%     1   75.7     0%  0.14    0.1%  rec.mag.fsfnet
416   420    20   71%     1    0.7   100%  0.00    0.1%  comp.sys.intel.ipsc310
417   420    20   51%     1    1.2     0%  0.00    0.1%  bionet.molbio.ageing
418   250    12    1%     9  107.2    56%  0.01    0.0%  unix-pc.sources
419   230    11    1%     7    9.8    29%  0.00    0.0%  unix-pc.uucp
420   210    10    1%   129  228.8    37%  0.03    0.0%  unix-pc.general