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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)
       |     |     |      |     |      +-- Participation ratio
       |     |     |      |     |      |    +-- Cost ratio: $US/month/reader
       |     |     |      |     |      |    |       +-- Share: % of newsreaders
       |     |     |      |     |      |    |       |   who read this group.
       V     V     V      V     V      V    V       V
205  2300   164   71%   165  389.0    72   0.68    1.4%  talk.religion.newage
206  2200   162   82%    37   56.8    16   0.10    1.4%  rec.arts.wobegon
207  2100   154   90%     4  154.9     2   0.30    1.3%  mod.mag.otherrealms
208  2100   154   81%    61   79.4    29   0.15    1.3%  rec.sport.hockey
209  2000   149   89%   235  300.7   117   0.60    1.3%  rec.music.gdead
210  2000   145   82%    38  101.6    19   0.20    1.3%  rec.ham-radio.packet
211  2000   143   82%    12   18.4     6   0.04    1.2%  rec.scuba
212  1900   142   82%    32   36.1    17   0.08    1.2%  rec.arts.poems
213  1900   139   88%     7    9.7     3   0.02    1.2%  rec.games.empire
214  1900   137   93%     5    7.3     3   0.02    1.2%  comp.os.eunice
215  1900   137   89%    75  697.0    39   1.50    1.2%  rec.games.pbm
216  1800   132   89%    58  114.8    32   0.26    1.2%  rec.games.bridge
217  1700   124   93%     4    3.4     2   0.01    1.1%  soc.culture.african
218  1700   124   87%    20   25.5    11   0.06    1.1%  soc.roots
219  1600   120   88%    70  177.2    43   0.44    1.0%  talk.abortion
220  1600   116   73%   105  292.6    66   0.73    1.0%  misc.handicap
221  1300    95   80%     7    7.8     5   0.02    0.8%  rec.skydiving
222  1200    85   82%     2    4.1     2   0.01    0.7%  rec.birds
223  1000    74   93%    18   35.7    18   0.14    0.6%  soc.culture.greek
224   730    53   19%     2   22.8     3   0.12    0.5%  talk.politics