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From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid)
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Subject: BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY (DEC 89)
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Date: 1 Jan 90 16:21:32 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
470  2600   108   34%     2    7.2   100%  0.00    0.4%  biz.clarinet
471  2500   103   45%     2    3.4   100%  0.00    0.4%  alt.gambling
472  2400   100   42%    65  150.5     0%  0.05    0.4%  soc.culture.asean
473  2400    98   59%     1    0.8     0%  0.00    0.4%  bionet.molbio.gene-org
474  2300    93   59%     2    4.6     0%  0.00    0.3%  bionet.molbio.embldatabank
475  2200    92   34%   257  372.9     3%  0.11    0.3%  alt.rock-n-roll.metal
476  2200    91   23%    99  188.8    15%  0.04    0.3%  rec.sport.soccer
477  2000    83   22%     2    1.8     0%  0.00    0.3%  unix-pc.uucp
478  1700    70   96%     2    1.8     0%  0.00    0.3%  comp.sys.ridge
479  1600    65   22%     6    3.2     0%  0.00    0.2%  unix-pc.test
480  1400    57   20%     2    1.6     0%  0.00    0.2%  bionet.molbio.genome-program
481  1200    51   19%    46   72.8    37%  0.02    0.2%  rec.aquaria
482  1100    47    9%    26   33.7     8%  0.01    0.2%  alt.mud
483  1000    43   24%    13   24.0   100%  0.01    0.2%  soc.rights.alien
484   760    31   11%     7   11.0     0%  0.00    0.1%  comp.sys.ncr
485   680    28   81%     1    1.2     0%  0.00    0.1%  comp.lang.forth.mac
486   610    25   13%     1    0.4     0%  0.00    0.1%  u3b.test
487   560    23   13%     5    9.4    60%  0.00    0.1%  u3b.misc
488   510    21   13%     5    4.8     0%  0.00    0.1%  u3b.tech
489   460    19    6%    82  118.1     1%  0.03    0.1%  alt.suicide.holiday