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TOP 40 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
  1 16000  1214   97%   382  624.4    23   0.18   10.0%  comp.unix.wizards
  2 14000  1097   97%    61  118.2     4   0.04    9.0%  comp.sources.d
  3 12000   929   97%    90  114.0     7   0.04    7.6%  comp.sources.wanted
  4 12000   887   97%    21   36.9     1   0.01    7.3%  news.misc
  5 11000   812   97%    70  154.2     6   0.06    6.7%  news.groups
  6  9100   703   97%    65  105.1     7   0.05    5.8%  comp.mail.uucp
  7  9100   701   97%   230  378.6    25   0.19    5.8%  comp.emacs
  8  9000   696   97%    34   75.3     3   0.04    5.7%  news.admin
  9  8900   683   97%    81  153.2     9   0.08    5.6%  comp.dcom.lans
 10  8800   675   97%   120  218.9    13   0.11    5.5%  sci.electronics
 11  8300   640   97%    57  107.7     6   0.06    5.3%  comp.databases
 12  8100   625   97%    81  155.6    10   0.09    5.1%  comp.dcom.modems
 13  7700   589   97%    52   71.4     6   0.04    4.8%  comp.lang.c++
 14  7400   571   97%     1    2.4     0   0.00    4.7%  comp.bugs.misc
 15  7200   557   97%    11   15.0     1   0.01    4.6%  news.sysadmin
 16  7100   544   97%    91  257.3    12   0.16    4.5%  news.software.b
 17  7100   543   97%    27   26.0     3   0.02    4.5%  news.config
 18  6800   523   97%    30   54.1     4   0.04    4.3%  comp.org.usenix
 19 17000  1321   96%   551 1013.3    32   0.27   10.8%  comp.sys.ibm.pc
 20 14000  1061   96%   301  492.9    21   0.16    8.7%  comp.unix.questions
 21 13000  1022   96%   131  172.3    10   0.06    8.4%  misc.wanted
 22 12000   958   96%   204  324.2    17   0.12    7.9%  comp.lang.c
 23 12000   931   96%    72  126.0     6   0.05    7.6%  comp.graphics
 24 11000   882   96%   567  738.4    51   0.30    7.2%  comp.sys.mac
 25 10000   784   96%    24  347.2     2   0.16    6.4%  comp.bugs.4bsd.ucb-fixes
 26  9700   746   96%   111  157.0    11   0.07    6.1%  comp.text
 27  9600   737   96%     4   52.3     0   0.02    6.0%  mod.newslists
 28  9400   723   96%    17   34.5     1   0.02    5.9%  mod.computers.workstations
 29  9300   714   96%    34   45.3     3   0.02    5.9%  comp.sys.misc
 30  8400   643   96%    97  214.1    11   0.11    5.3%  mod.computers.laser-printers
 31  8000   619   96%    38   58.0     4   0.03    5.1%  comp.sys.m68k
 32  7800   599   96%    15   32.0     2   0.02    4.9%  mod.protocols
 33  7500   578   96%    42   58.9     5   0.04    4.7%  comp.mail.misc
 34  7000   535   96%   232  368.5    33   0.24    4.4%  mod.protocols.tcp-ip
 35  6800   523   96%     1    2.3     0   0.00    4.3%  comp.bugs.sys5
 36  6700   517   96%   622 1694.2    92   1.10    4.2%  comp.sys.atari.st
 37  6600   505   96%    14   12.4     2   0.01    4.1%  comp.terminals
 38  6200   479   96%    22   19.9     3   0.01    3.9%  news.newsites
 39  6100   466   96%    48  206.2     7   0.15    3.8%  comp.lang.prolog
 40  5400   414   96%    40   46.4     7   0.04    3.4%  comp.sys.att