BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PROPAGATION (MAR 87)

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From: reid
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 1987 19:14

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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
210  1700   133   85%    10    7.3     5   0.02    1.1%  rec.arts.poems
211 15000  1187   84%    21   90.3     1   0.03    9.7%  net.sources.games
212  8600   663   84%     7   13.5     0   0.01    5.4%  rec.nude
213  8300   637   84%    11   11.8     1   0.01    5.2%  net.sources.mac
214  3800   295   84%   114  170.2    30   0.20    2.4%  rec.pets
215  2900   223   84%   354  557.7   122   0.87    1.8%  rec.sport.basketball
216  2800   213   84%    17   24.7     6   0.04    1.7%  rec.sport.football
217  2800   212   84%    90  175.2    32   0.28    1.7%  rec.sport.misc
218  2400   185   84%   127  161.3    52   0.30    1.5%  rec.arts.tv.soaps
219  2400   181   84%    28   46.7    11   0.09    1.5%  rec.arts.wobegon
220  2300   180   84%    15   19.4     6   0.04    1.5%  rec.sport.hockey
221  1600   122   84%    60   80.9    37   0.23    1.0%  rec.birds
222  1300   103   84%    24   43.2    18   0.15    0.8%  rec.skydiving
223  1800   138   82%   131  249.9    73   0.62    1.1%  misc.handicap
224 10000   768   81%   247  398.2    24   0.18    6.3%  comp.windows.x
225  2400   185   80%    48  115.5    20   0.22    1.5%  talk.religion.newage
226  1100    87   65%    10  249.3     9   1.00    0.7%  comp.binaries.atari.st
227   590    45   65%     1   20.5     2   0.16    0.4%  comp.sources.atari.st
228  3500   272   41%    21   67.4     6   0.09    2.2%  rec.arts.movies.reviews
229  2000   154   35%     4   16.9     2   0.04    1.3%  comp.std.unix

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Subject: BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PROPAGATION (MAR 87)
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