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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
210  2100   165   92%    18   26.4     8   0.06    1.4%  soc.culture.celtic
211  2100   163   91%    12   15.2     6   0.03    1.3%  soc.culture.misc
212  2100   158   86%    41  102.3    19   0.22    1.3%  rec.ham-radio.packet
213  2100   158   86%     8   15.5     4   0.03    1.3%  soc.roots
214  2000   156   94%     1    1.9     0   0.00    1.3%  comp.std.internat
215  2000   154   35%     4   16.9     2   0.04    1.3%  comp.std.unix
216  1900   146   85%     4    4.1     2   0.01    1.2%  rec.scuba
217  1800   141   92%    68  145.3    38   0.36    1.2%  rec.games.bridge
218  1800   138   82%   131  249.9    73   0.62    1.1%  misc.handicap
219  1700   133   85%    10    7.3     5   0.02    1.1%  rec.arts.poems
220  1600   122   84%    60   80.9    37   0.23    1.0%  rec.birds
221  1500   112   86%    32   75.7    21   0.23    0.9%  talk.abortion
222  1400   110   94%     7    9.0     5   0.03    0.9%  comp.sys.ti
223  1400   108   93%     1   19.4     1   0.06    0.9%  mod.os.os9
224  1300   103   84%    24   43.2    18   0.15    0.8%  rec.skydiving
225  1300   100   91%     1    0.8     1   0.00    0.8%  soc.culture.african
226  1100    87   65%    10  249.3     9   1.00    0.7%  comp.binaries.atari.st
227  1100    84   93%     1    1.3     1   0.01    0.7%  mod.computers.ridge
228   960    74   92%    54  150.8    56   0.71    0.6%  soc.culture.greek
229   590    45   65%     1   20.5     2   0.16    0.4%  comp.sources.atari.st