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BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PROPAGATION (JAN 87)

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From: Brian Reid
Date: Sun, 01 Feb 1987 11:16
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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)
       |     |     |      |     |      +-- Participation ratio
       |     |     |      |     |      |    +-- Cost ratio: $US/month/reader
       |     |     |      |     |      |    |       +-- Share: % of newsreaders
       |     |     |      |     |      |    |       |   who read this group.
       V     V     V      V     V      V    V       V
204  1700   138   77%    35   45.2    21   0.11    1.2%  rec.arts.wobegon
205  1600   130   77%    58   61.3    36   0.16    1.2%  rec.sport.baseball
206  1600   125   77%    34   75.9    21   0.19    1.1%  rec.ham-radio.packet
207  1500   120   77%    41   60.6    27   0.16    1.1%  rec.sport.misc
208  1200    96   77%     8   15.1     7   0.05    0.9%  rec.sport.hockey
209   990    78   77%     5    6.5     5   0.03    0.7%  rec.birds
210  3500   275   76%    38   52.8    11   0.06    2.5%  rec.food.drink
211  2700   214   76%    28   35.4    10   0.05    1.9%  rec.gardens
212  2200   171   76%    18   25.0     8   0.05    1.5%  rec.boats
213  2100   164   76%   108  165.3    51   0.32    1.5%  rec.sport.basketball
214  1800   142   76%    17   24.6     9   0.06    1.3%  rec.railroad
215  1500   116   76%    20   32.7    13   0.09    1.0%  rec.scuba
216  1100    90   75%    15   26.0    14   0.10    0.8%  rec.skydiving
217  6500   517   73%    12  323.4     1   0.20    4.6%  news.lists
218  1400   113   62%    57  159.9    40   0.46    1.0%  misc.handicap
219  1300   101   56%    48   72.9    37   0.23    0.9%  talk.religion.newage
220  1600   128   44%     7  330.6     4   0.84    1.2%  mod.mag.fidonet
221  3300   264   38%   184  268.6    55   0.33    2.4%  comp.os.minix
222  2500   201   30%     1    3.2     0   0.01    1.8%  comp.sources.unix
223  1500   117   30%     4   41.2     2   0.11    1.1%  comp.sources.bugs
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From: reid@decwrl.UUCP (Brian Reid)
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Subject: BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PROPAGATION (JAN 87)
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