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TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PER-READER COST
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)
       |     |     |      |     |      +-- Participation ratio
       |     |     |      |     |      |    +-- Cost ratio: $US/month/reader
       |     |     |      |     |      |    |       +-- Share: % of newsreaders
       |     |     |      |     |      |    |       |   who read this group.
       V     V     V      V     V      V    V       V
  1  3500   275   87%   692 1795.8   197   2.10    2.5%  talk.politics.misc
  2  2400   192   87%   424 1156.2   176   2.00    1.7%  talk.religion.misc
  3  5000   397   89%   688 2298.1   137   1.90    3.6%  comp.sys.amiga
  4  5100   400   90%   600 2182.3   117   1.70    3.6%  comp.sys.atari.st
  5  2700   215   79%   465 1069.5   172   1.60    1.9%  rec.arts.comics
  6  5900   462   87%   641 1606.4   108   1.10    4.2%  soc.women
  7  5600   446   83%   731 1384.3   130   1.00    4.0%  rec.arts.sf-lovers
  8  3100   243   89%   274  741.1    88   0.97    2.2%  mod.music.gaffa
  9  2000   155   89%   125  476.4    62   0.96    1.4%  comp.sys.atari.8bit
 10  1700   137   87%   122  398.5    72   0.95    1.2%  talk.abortion
 11  2400   186   78%   320  544.2   133   0.92    1.7%  rec.aviation
 12  1600   128   44%     7  330.6     4   0.84    1.2%  mod.mag.fidonet
 13  9000   714   86%   980 1854.2   108   0.83    6.4%  soc.singles
 14  2100   168   78%   187  429.2    89   0.83    1.5%  rec.ham-radio
 15  3000   235   92%   304  553.6   101   0.75    2.1%  soc.culture.indian
 16  2000   154   88%   114  371.4    57   0.75    1.4%  talk.philosophy.misc
 17  2000   158   87%   130  354.3    65   0.72    1.4%  talk.origins
 18  3000   236   92%   194  514.7    64   0.69    2.1%  soc.culture.jewish
 19  3800   299   83%   394  641.7   103   0.68    2.7%  rec.music.misc
 20  1500   116   82%   198  249.8   132   0.67    1.0%  rec.music.gdead
 21  4700   373   79%   478  766.4   101   0.66    3.4%  rec.arts.startrek
 22 26000  2072   90%   268 4044.3    10   0.63   18.6%  net.sources
 23  2800   218   77%   285  437.8   102   0.63    2.0%  rec.sport.football
 24  2900   227   85%   217  438.5    74   0.61    2.0%  rec.music.synth
 25 15000  1147   96%    41 1754.5     2   0.47   10.3%  mod.sources
 26  2400   191   82%   110  279.5    45   0.47    1.7%  rec.games.frp
 27  1400   113   62%    57  159.9    40   0.46    1.0%  misc.handicap
 28  5600   440   80%   350  602.3    62   0.44    4.0%  rec.audio
 29  7600   601   96%    21  791.7     2   0.42    5.4%  mod.mac.binaries
 30  2100   166   77%   138  213.3    65   0.41    1.5%  rec.motorcycles
 31 12000   932   90%   615 1166.2    51   0.39    8.4%  comp.sys.ibm.pc
 32  7000   549   91%   277  655.9    39   0.38    4.9%  sci.space
 33  2600   206   78%   167  230.0    64   0.36    1.9%  rec.arts.drwho
 34  8800   697   90%    65  770.1     7   0.35    6.3%  comp.ai
 35  4100   322   79%   261  359.2    63   0.35    2.9%  rec.video
 36  9900   779   96%   518  834.3    52   0.34    7.0%  mod.computers.vax
 37  1600   125   82%    72  135.7    45   0.34    1.1%  rec.games.bridge
 38  3500   278   90%   227  284.5    64   0.33    2.5%  comp.sys.apple
 39  3500   275   83%   184  288.6    52   0.33    2.5%  rec.games.hack
 40  3300   264   38%   184  268.6    55   0.33    2.4%  comp.os.minix