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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 26000  2072   90%   268 4044.3    10   0.63   18.6%  net.sources
  2 18000  1401   95%     1    2.1     0   0.00   12.6%  mod.announce
  3 17000  1373   87%   182  264.9    10   0.06   12.3%  misc.consumers.house
  4 15000  1208   92%   121  242.0     8   0.07   10.9%  misc.jobs
  5 15000  1196   90%    55  593.8     3   0.16   10.8%  net.sources.games
  6 15000  1191   95%     4   14.6     0   0.00   10.7%  mod.conferences
  7 15000  1147   96%    41 1754.5     2   0.47   10.3%  mod.sources
  8 14000  1067   90%    45   87.5     3   0.03    9.6%  net.sources.bugs
  9 12000   949   90%   102  177.8     8   0.06    8.5%  comp.misc
 10 12000   934   91%   217  295.1    18   0.10    8.4%  comp.unix.wizards
 11 12000   932   90%   615 1166.2    51   0.39    8.4%  comp.sys.ibm.pc
 12 11000   885   92%   112  171.6    10   0.06    8.0%  comp.sources.d
 13 11000   871   89%   404  594.0    36   0.22    7.8%  comp.unix.questions
 14 11000   860   90%     7   81.5     0   0.03    7.7%  net.sources.mac
 15 11000   850   93%    62   65.4     5   0.02    7.6%  misc.wanted
 16 11000   835   96%     4    8.2     0   0.00    7.5%  mod.newprod
 17 10000   825   96%    60  157.2     6   0.06    7.4%  mod.recipes
 18 10000   822   97%     2   24.4     0   0.01    7.4%  mod.newslists
 19 10000   821   95%    88  214.9     8   0.09    7.4%  mod.ai
 20 10000   809   79%   605  722.7    60   0.29    7.3%  rec.humor
 21 10000   803   93%    37   56.2     3   0.02    7.2%  news.misc
 22 10000   798   87%    51   54.2     5   0.02    7.2%  misc.forsale
 23  9900   781   90%   354  656.6    35   0.27    7.0%  comp.lang.c
 24  9900   779   96%   518  834.3    52   0.34    7.0%  mod.computers.vax
 25  9800   772   96%     5  308.7     0   0.13    6.9%  mod.computers.ibm-pc
 26  9600   760   91%   150  177.9    15   0.08    6.8%  comp.sources.wanted
 27  9300   732   90%   141  254.2    15   0.11    6.6%  comp.arch
 28  9200   730   96%    78  122.9     8   0.05    6.6%  mod.telecom
 29  9200   728   90%   131  238.3    14   0.10    6.5%  comp.graphics
 30  9000   714   86%   980 1854.2   108   0.83    6.4%  soc.singles
 31  8800   697   90%    65  770.1     7   0.35    6.3%  comp.ai
 32  8800   695   95%    37   79.5     4   0.04    6.2%  mod.os
 33  8800   692   96%    22  525.7     2   0.24    6.2%  mod.mac
 34  8700   688   91%   121  174.7    13   0.08    6.2%  news.groups
 35  8500   670   91%   467  634.2    54   0.30    6.0%  comp.sys.mac
 36  8400   662   96%    14   25.2     1   0.01    6.0%  mod.computers.laser-printers
 37  8400   662   87%   132  214.4    15   0.10    6.0%  talk.rumors
 38  8300   658   92%   100  170.9    12   0.08    5.9%  misc.misc
 39  8200   645   97%    38   75.1     4   0.04    5.8%  mod.std.unix
 40  8100   642   95%     1    1.3     0   0.00    5.8%  mod.os.unix