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TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PER-READER COST
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  3000   233   87%   558 1533.9   186   2.30    1.9%  talk.religion.misc
  2  7400   570   94%    75 2250.7    10   1.40    4.7%  mod.mac.binaries
  3  4300   330   88%   432 1141.1   100   1.20    2.7%  talk.politics.misc
  4  8200   629   95%   700 1996.9    85   1.10    5.2%  comp.sys.amiga
  5  6700   517   96%   622 1694.2    92   1.10    4.2%  comp.sys.atari.st
  6  3200   244   87%   321  805.6   100   1.10    2.0%  rec.ham-radio
  7  2200   169   92%   350  561.6   159   1.10    1.4%  rec.music.gdead
  8  4700   361   87%   517 1056.6   110   1.00    3.0%  rec.arts.comics
  9  1100    87   65%    10  249.3     9   1.00    0.7%  comp.binaries.atari.st
 10  2800   216   85%   321  618.0   114   0.99    1.8%  rec.motorcycles
 11  3000   231   89%   262  632.9    87   0.95    1.9%  mod.music.gaffa
 12  8100   620   92%   881 1679.6   108   0.93    5.1%  rec.arts.sf-lovers
 13  3400   259   93%   370  692.9   108   0.92    2.1%  soc.culture.indian
 14  6700   517   88%   647 1331.8    96   0.89    4.2%  soc.women
 15  2900   223   84%   354  557.7   122   0.87    1.8%  rec.sport.basketball
 16 10000   783   88%   987 1884.6    98   0.85    6.4%  soc.singles
 17   960    74   92%    54  150.8    56   0.71    0.6%  soc.culture.greek
 18  6700   513   95%   460 1047.2    68   0.70    4.2%  mod.computers.vax
 19  5700   442   87%   505  874.4    88   0.69    3.6%  rec.arts.startrek
 20  5800   444   93%   492  839.6    84   0.65    3.6%  rec.music.misc
 21  1800   138   82%   131  249.9    73   0.62    1.1%  misc.handicap
 22  2400   185   87%   120  323.8    50   0.61    1.5%  talk.origins
 23  7400   567   85%   492  880.1    66   0.54    4.7%  rec.autos
 24  3200   249   85%   244  363.7    76   0.51    2.0%  rec.aviation
 25  2800   218   85%   170  295.1    60   0.47    1.8%  rec.sport.baseball
 26  6800   526   87%   421  667.7    61   0.44    4.3%  talk.bizarre
 27 23000  1801   95%    47 2114.3     2   0.41   14.8%  mod.sources
 28  3900   299   85%   174  329.0    44   0.38    2.5%  rec.bicycles
 29  3900   303   88%   184  318.4    47   0.37    2.5%  rec.arts.drwho
 30 25000  1961   86%   142 2024.8     5   0.36   16.1%  net.sources
 31  1800   141   92%    68  145.3    38   0.36    1.2%  rec.games.bridge
 32  7500   578   94%   254  581.0    33   0.35    4.7%  sci.space
 33  4600   353   88%   137  348.1    29   0.34    2.9%  soc.motss
 34  3400   264   92%    91  241.3    26   0.32    2.2%  rec.games.frp
 35  3000   228   92%    58  211.2    19   0.32    1.9%  rec.music.folk
 36  5400   413   88%   164  374.1    30   0.31    3.4%  misc.kids
 37 11000   882   96%   567  738.4    51   0.30    7.2%  comp.sys.mac
 38  9800   756   88%   427  657.5    43   0.30    6.2%  rec.arts.movies
 39  3200   247   95%   122  210.4    38   0.30    2.0%  comp.os.cpm
 40  2400   185   84%   127  161.3    52   0.30    1.5%  rec.arts.tv.soaps