Xref: utzoo news.lists:1063 news.groups:16032 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!decwrl!reid From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups Subject: BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PROPAGATION (DEC 89) Message-ID: <343@apostrophe.dec.com> Date: 1 Jan 90 16:21:37 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 470 2600 108 34% 2 7.2 100% 0.00 0.4% biz.clarinet 471 2200 92 34% 257 372.9 3% 0.11 0.3% alt.rock-n-roll.metal 472 3200 133 33% 73 136.0 1% 0.03 0.5% alt.kids-talk 473 8000 328 31% 6 4.8 0% 0.00 1.2% alt.sources.index 474 3400 138 25% 5 8.1 20% 0.00 0.5% comp.groupware 475 4200 173 24% 184 278.4 22% 0.03 0.6% unix-pc.general 476 1000 43 24% 13 24.0 100% 0.01 0.2% soc.rights.alien 477 4600 187 23% 6 99.7 0% 0.01 0.7% alt.sources.patches 478 2900 121 23% 4 8.9 75% 0.00 0.4% unix-pc.sources 479 2200 91 23% 99 188.8 15% 0.04 0.3% rec.sport.soccer 480 2000 83 22% 2 1.8 0% 0.00 0.3% unix-pc.uucp 481 1600 65 22% 6 3.2 0% 0.00 0.2% unix-pc.test 482 1400 57 20% 2 1.6 0% 0.00 0.2% bionet.molbio.genome-program 483 1200 51 19% 46 72.8 37% 0.02 0.2% rec.aquaria 484 610 25 13% 1 0.4 0% 0.00 0.1% u3b.test 485 560 23 13% 5 9.4 60% 0.00 0.1% u3b.misc 486 510 21 13% 5 4.8 0% 0.00 0.1% u3b.tech 487 760 31 11% 7 11.0 0% 0.00 0.1% comp.sys.ncr 488 1100 47 9% 26 33.7 8% 0.01 0.2% alt.mud 489 460 19 6% 82 118.1 1% 0.03 0.1% alt.suicide.holiday