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From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid)
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Subject: BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PROPAGATION (FEB 90)
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Date: 1 Mar 90 15:52:13 GMT
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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
504  5400   189   38%   630 1479.3     3%  0.19    0.7%  alt.atheism
505  2800    98   37%     3   26.7    67%  0.01    0.3%  biz.clarinet
506 12000   440   33%   151  214.0     9%  0.01    1.5%  comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
507  5400   189   33%   113  264.8    24%  0.03    0.7%  alt.skinheads
508  3500   124   31%     1    7.1     0%  0.00    0.4%  comp.hypercube
509  6100   215   27%   220  420.0    34%  0.03    0.7%  unix-pc.general
510  3900   138   27%     4    7.0    50%  0.00    0.5%  vmsnet.misc
511  4500   159   26%     6  178.1    83%  0.02    0.5%  unix-pc.sources
512  4400   155   26%     6    8.7     0%  0.00    0.5%  unix-pc.uucp
513  2500    89   26%     5   10.4    20%  0.00    0.3%  unix-pc.bugs
514  2200    76   26%     2    6.7   100%  0.00    0.3%  vmsnet.mail
515   770    27   26%     7   16.3     0%  0.01    0.1%  vmsnet.mail.pmdf
516  6800   240   25%   206  381.2     5%  0.03    0.8%  comp.text.tex
517  2200    77   25%     3    1.3     0%  0.00    0.3%  unix-pc.test
518  5300   188   23%    75  130.3     7%  0.01    0.6%  comp.periphs.scsi
519  2400    83   23%     1    1.3   100%  0.00    0.3%  vmsnet.admin
520  1400    48   23%     5    2.3     0%  0.00    0.2%  vmsnet.test
521  1600    58   18%    21   42.5     0%  0.01    0.2%  vmsnet.uucp
522  1300    47   15%     2    2.5    50%  0.00    0.2%  u3b.misc
523   850    30   12%     1    5.2     0%  0.00    0.1%  rec.arts.cinema