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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
205  2500   179   82%   114  193.5    45   0.31    1.6%  rec.motorcycles
206  2500   179   82%   101  187.0    40   0.30    1.6%  rec.arts.tv.soaps
207  2300   171   82%    38   70.0    16   0.12    1.5%  rec.sport.misc
208  2300   164   82%    41   63.1    18   0.11    1.4%  rec.railroad
209  2200   162   82%    37   56.8    16   0.10    1.4%  rec.arts.wobegon
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  1200    85   82%     2    4.1     2   0.01    0.7%  rec.birds
214  3700   271   81%    91  124.2    24   0.13    2.4%  rec.pets
215  2600   187   81%   138  207.9    53   0.32    1.6%  rec.sport.basketball
216  2100   154   81%    61   79.4    29   0.15    1.3%  rec.sport.hockey
217  1300    95   80%     7    7.8     5   0.02    0.8%  rec.skydiving
218  3600   265   77%     7  151.9     1   0.17    2.3%  mod.mag.fidonet
219 10000   731   76%   211  328.4    21   0.13    6.4%  comp.os.minix
220  1600   116   73%   105  292.6    66   0.73    1.0%  misc.handicap
221  2300   164   71%   165  389.0    72   0.68    1.4%  talk.religion.newage
222 12000   842   62%   215  341.1    17   0.11    7.3%  comp.windows.x
223  2800   201   26%     1    7.0     0   0.01    1.8%  comp.sources.bugs
224   730    53   19%     2   22.8     3   0.12    0.5%  talk.politics