Xref: utzoo news.lists:817 news.groups:9893 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!sun-barr!decwrl!reid From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups Subject: BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PROPAGATION (MAY 89) Message-ID: <63@apostrophe.dec.com> Date: 1 Jun 89 23:06:04 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 401 950 45 55% 30 83.1 0% 0.08 0.2% bionet.molbio.bio-matrix 402 950 45 55% 3 2.5 0% 0.00 0.2% bionet.molbio.news 403 870 41 55% 3 29.7 0% 0.03 0.2% bionet.sci-resources 404 610 29 55% 7 7.1 0% 0.01 0.1% bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts 405 8600 405 54% 46 129.6 2% 0.01 1.7% comp.sw.components 406 6900 325 54% 221 456.3 4% 0.06 1.3% soc.culture.asian.american 407 850 40 53% 4 8.9 0% 0.01 0.2% bionet.molbio.pir 408 1800 83 52% 4 11.7 0% 0.01 0.3% alt.co-ops 409 1100 50 51% 26 44.7 0% 0.03 0.2% bionet.technology.conversion 410 420 20 51% 1 1.2 0% 0.00 0.1% bionet.molbio.ageing 411 21000 969 44% 71 109.3 3% 0.00 4.0% alt.sex.bondage 412 8900 419 44% 77 105.9 31% 0.01 1.7% alt.msdos.programmer 413 2500 119 44% 7 18.2 0% 0.01 0.5% alt.cyb-sys 414 8600 404 43% 251 418.8 3% 0.03 1.7% alt.restaurants 415 2100 97 38% 36 26.8 0% 0.01 0.4% bionet.population-bio 416 1500 73 38% 20 36.7 0% 0.02 0.3% bionet.software 417 1200 59 36% 8 107.3 0% 0.05 0.2% bionet.journals.contents 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