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From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid)
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Subject: BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY (FEB 90)
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Date: 1 Mar 90 15:52:08 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
504  3500   123   59%     2   24.0    50%  0.01    0.4%  bionet.molbio.evolution
505  3500   123   47%     2    1.7     0%  0.00    0.4%  bionet.agroforestry
506  3400   119   84%     1    1.3     0%  0.00    0.4%  comp.protocols.iso.x400.gateway
507  3100   108   58%    11    9.3     0%  0.00    0.4%  bionet.technology.conversion
508  2900   103   95%     1    0.5     0%  0.00    0.4%  comp.os.eunice
509  2900   102   69%     2  223.2     0%  0.10    0.4%  rec.mag.fsfnet
510  2800    98   37%     3   26.7    67%  0.01    0.3%  biz.clarinet
511  2600    91   59%     1    0.6   100%  0.00    0.3%  bionet.molbio.gene-org
512  2600    90   59%     2   35.6     0%  0.01    0.3%  bionet.molbio.bio-matrix
513  2500    89   26%     5   10.4    20%  0.00    0.3%  unix-pc.bugs
514  2400    83   23%     1    1.3   100%  0.00    0.3%  vmsnet.admin
515  2300    80   45%     1    1.0     0%  0.00    0.3%  biz.config
516  2200    77   25%     3    1.3     0%  0.00    0.3%  unix-pc.test
517  2200    76   26%     2    6.7   100%  0.00    0.3%  vmsnet.mail
518  1600    58   18%    21   42.5     0%  0.01    0.2%  vmsnet.uucp
519  1400    48   23%     5    2.3     0%  0.00    0.2%  vmsnet.test
520  1300    47   15%     2    2.5    50%  0.00    0.2%  u3b.misc
521   880    31   48%     1    0.6     0%  0.00    0.1%  news.lists.ps-maps
522   850    30   12%     1    5.2     0%  0.00    0.1%  rec.arts.cinema
523   770    27   26%     7   16.3     0%  0.01    0.1%  vmsnet.mail.pmdf