BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY (JAN 87)

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Author: Brian Reid
Date: Sun, 01 Feb 1987 11:15

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BOTTOM 20 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
204  1800   140   86%    21   34.3    11   0.08    1.3%  soc.roots
205  1700   138   77%    35   45.2    21   0.11    1.2%  rec.arts.wobegon
206  1700   137   87%   122  398.5    72   0.95    1.2%  talk.abortion
207  1600   130   77%    58   61.3    36   0.16    1.2%  rec.sport.baseball
208  1600   128   44%     7  330.6     4   0.84    1.2%  mod.mag.fidonet
209  1600   125   82%    72  135.7    45   0.34    1.1%  rec.games.bridge
210  1600   125   77%    34   75.9    21   0.19    1.1%  rec.ham-radio.packet
211  1500   120   77%    41   60.6    27   0.16    1.1%  rec.sport.misc
212  1500   117   30%     4   41.2     2   0.11    1.1%  comp.sources.bugs
213  1500   116   82%   198  249.8   132   0.67    1.0%  rec.music.gdead
214  1500   116   76%    20   32.7    13   0.09    1.0%  rec.scuba
215  1500   115   82%    20   46.0    13   0.12    1.0%  rec.games.pbm
216  1400   113   78%    27   28.2    19   0.08    1.0%  rec.arts.poems
217  1400   113   62%    57  159.9    40   0.46    1.0%  misc.handicap
218  1300   101   56%    48   72.9    37   0.23    0.9%  talk.religion.newage
219  1200    96   77%     8   15.1     7   0.05    0.9%  rec.sport.hockey
220  1100    90   75%    15   26.0    14   0.10    0.8%  rec.skydiving
221   990    78   77%     5    6.5     5   0.03    0.7%  rec.birds
222   950    75   91%    11   13.0    12   0.06    0.7%  soc.culture.greek
223   790    62   90%     8    6.5    10   0.03    0.6%  soc.culture.african

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