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TOP 40 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
  1 27000  1950   88%   114 1161.3     4   0.17   17.0%  net.sources
  2 23000  1688   96%    57 2232.2     2   0.39   14.7%  mod.sources
  3 20000  1427   89%   171  321.8     8   0.06   12.5%  misc.consumers.house
  4 18000  1307   94%   182  423.1    10   0.09   11.4%  misc.jobs
  5 17000  1215   93%    22   65.6     1   0.02   10.6%  mod.conferences
  6 16000  1166   95%   791 1598.1    49   0.40   10.2%  comp.sys.ibm.pc
  7 16000  1147   88%    57   92.5     3   0.02   10.0%  net.sources.games
  8 15000  1125   96%   282  403.5    18   0.11    9.8%  comp.unix.wizards
  9 15000  1089   89%    38   98.8     2   0.03    9.5%  net.sources.bugs
 10 14000  1054   85%   490  795.0    35   0.23    9.2%  rec.humor
 11 14000  1053   96%   158  212.0    11   0.06    9.2%  comp.sources.d
 12 14000  1015   95%   264  352.8    18   0.10    8.9%  comp.unix.questions
 13 13000   983   94%    90  138.6     6   0.04    8.6%  comp.misc
 14 13000   932   95%    87   93.3     6   0.03    8.1%  misc.wanted
 15 13000   929   95%   284  451.3    21   0.14    8.1%  comp.lang.c
 16 12000   885   94%     4    5.8     0   0.00    7.7%  mod.announce
 17 12000   880   96%    12   38.1     1   0.01    7.7%  news.misc
 18 12000   879   94%    67  103.2     5   0.03    7.7%  mod.telecom
 19 12000   870   96%   214  270.3    17   0.09    7.6%  comp.sources.wanted
 20 12000   863   95%    15   30.7     1   0.01    7.5%  mod.newprod
 21 12000   859   95%     7  313.4     0   0.10    7.5%  mod.computers.ibm-pc
 22 12000   852   95%   111  150.5     9   0.05    7.4%  comp.graphics
 23 12000   842   62%   215  341.1    17   0.11    7.3%  comp.windows.x
 24 12000   838   88%    67   66.8     5   0.02    7.3%  misc.forsale
 25 11000   816   88%    20  171.3     1   0.06    7.1%  net.sources.mac
 26 11000   809   96%   427  643.1    38   0.23    7.1%  comp.sys.mac
 27 11000   804   96%   122  244.0    11   0.09    7.0%  news.groups
 28 11000   804   95%   248  543.6    22   0.20    7.0%  comp.arch
 29 11000   789   95%    60  178.6     5   0.06    6.9%  mod.recipes
 30 11000   775   96%     2   27.3     0   0.01    6.8%  mod.newslists
 31 11000   772   94%    47  114.1     4   0.04    6.7%  mod.os
 32 10000   760   95%   141  359.1    14   0.14    6.6%  mod.ai
 33 10000   757   95%    71  271.6     7   0.11    6.6%  comp.ai
 34 10000   738   95%    11   19.0     1   0.01    6.4%  mod.compilers
 35 10000   733   89%  1167 2170.2   116   0.87    6.4%  soc.singles
 36 10000   731   76%   211  328.4    21   0.13    6.4%  comp.os.minix
 37  9800   716   86%   334  541.5    34   0.22    6.2%  rec.arts.movies
 38  9800   715   96%    12   25.1     1   0.01    6.2%  mod.computers.workstations
 39  9600   696   96%   170  251.0    17   0.10    6.1%  comp.text
 40  9500   691   94%    94  130.5     9   0.05    6.0%  misc.misc