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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 25000  1961   86%   142 2024.8     5   0.36   16.1%  net.sources
  2 23000  1801   95%    47 2114.3     2   0.41   14.8%  mod.sources
  3 22000  1660   95%     7   56.7     0   0.01   13.6%  mod.announce.newusers
  4 20000  1537   89%   168  250.6     8   0.06   12.6%  misc.consumers.house
  5 18000  1359   94%   104  209.5     5   0.05   11.2%  misc.jobs
  6 17000  1336   94%    15   79.7     0   0.02   11.0%  mod.conferences
  7 17000  1321   96%   551 1013.3    32   0.27   10.8%  comp.sys.ibm.pc
  8 17000  1276   87%   501  626.1    29   0.17   10.5%  rec.humor
  9 16000  1214   97%   382  624.4    23   0.18   10.0%  comp.unix.wizards
 10 16000  1200   93%     4    3.9     0   0.00    9.8%  mod.announce
 11 15000  1187   84%    21   90.3     1   0.03    9.7%  net.sources.games
 12 15000  1116   95%     2    3.5     0   0.00    9.2%  mod.newprod
 13 14000  1097   97%    61  118.2     4   0.04    9.0%  comp.sources.d
 14 14000  1061   96%   301  492.9    21   0.16    8.7%  comp.unix.questions
 15 14000  1048   85%    45  213.9     3   0.07    8.6%  net.sources.bugs
 16 13000  1022   96%   131  172.3    10   0.06    8.4%  misc.wanted
 17 13000   976   94%    62  104.5     4   0.04    8.0%  comp.misc
 18 12000   958   96%   204  324.2    17   0.12    7.9%  comp.lang.c
 19 12000   931   96%    72  126.0     6   0.05    7.6%  comp.graphics
 20 12000   929   97%    90  114.0     7   0.04    7.6%  comp.sources.wanted
 21 12000   897   88%    95  111.9     7   0.04    7.4%  misc.forsale
 22 12000   887   97%    21   36.9     1   0.01    7.3%  news.misc
 23 12000   885   95%     5  241.6     0   0.09    7.3%  mod.computers.ibm-pc
 24 11000   882   96%   567  738.4    51   0.30    7.2%  comp.sys.mac
 25 11000   854   94%    18   30.8     1   0.01    7.0%  mod.compilers
 26 11000   844   95%    50  112.2     4   0.05    6.9%  mod.telecom
 27 11000   837   94%    38  104.5     3   0.04    6.9%  mod.os
 28 11000   824   95%   277  680.8    25   0.28    6.8%  comp.arch
 29 11000   824   95%    70  218.5     6   0.09    6.8%  mod.recipes
 30 11000   812   97%    70  154.2     6   0.06    6.7%  news.groups
 31 11000   809   86%    72  116.0     6   0.05    6.6%  comp.os.minix
 32 10000   785   95%    58  257.9     5   0.12    6.4%  comp.ai
 33 10000   784   96%    24  347.2     2   0.16    6.4%  comp.bugs.4bsd.ucb-fixes
 34 10000   783   88%   987 1884.6    98   0.85    6.4%  soc.singles
 35 10000   768   81%   247  398.2    24   0.18    6.3%  comp.windows.x
 36  9800   756   88%   427  657.5    43   0.30    6.2%  rec.arts.movies
 37  9700   746   96%   111  157.0    11   0.07    6.1%  comp.text
 38  9700   743   95%   112  245.1    11   0.11    6.1%  mod.ai
 39  9600   737   96%     4   52.3     0   0.02    6.0%  mod.newslists
 40  9400   723   96%    17   34.5     1   0.02    5.9%  mod.computers.workstations