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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  3300   240   88%   395 1241.0   119   1.50    2.1%  talk.religion.misc
  2  1900   137   89%    75  697.0    39   1.50    1.2%  rec.games.pbm
  3  2600   190   82%   394  880.5   151   1.40    1.7%  rec.ham-radio
  4  7700   560   95%   557 2597.7    72   1.30    4.9%  comp.sys.amiga
  5  4500   325   89%   524 1396.1   116   1.20    2.8%  talk.politics.misc
  6  6600   480   95%   561 1812.5    85   1.10    4.2%  comp.sys.atari.st
  7  4000   292   85%   544 1141.6   136   1.10    2.5%  rec.arts.comics
  8  2500   183   89%   224  675.3    89   1.10    1.6%  talk.origins
  9  3000   216   88%   325  753.5   108   1.00    1.9%  mod.music.gaffa
 10  3200   231   82%   507  776.0   158   0.97    2.0%  rec.aviation
 11 10000   733   89%  1167 2170.2   116   0.87    6.4%  soc.singles
 12  5100   371   90%   590  999.7   115   0.78    3.2%  rec.music.misc
 13  6500   477   89%   574 1252.1    88   0.77    4.2%  soc.women
 14  1600   116   73%   105  292.6    66   0.73    1.0%  misc.handicap
 15  2300   164   71%   165  389.0    72   0.68    1.4%  talk.religion.newage
 16  2000   149   89%   235  300.7   117   0.60    1.3%  rec.music.gdead
 17  7900   576   89%   535 1116.1    67   0.57    5.0%  rec.arts.sf-lovers
 18  7500   543   95%    41  998.9     5   0.53    4.7%  mod.mac.binaries
 19  7400   541   95%   594  987.4    80   0.53    4.7%  mod.computers.vax
 20  2600   191   90%   108  343.3    41   0.53    1.7%  talk.philosophy.misc
 21  3000   218   93%   168  389.8    56   0.52    1.9%  soc.culture.jewish
 22  2400   176   95%    97  312.3    40   0.52    1.5%  comp.sys.atari.8bit
 23  1600   120   88%    70  177.2    43   0.44    1.0%  talk.abortion
 24 16000  1166   95%   791 1598.1    49   0.40   10.2%  comp.sys.ibm.pc
 25 23000  1688   96%    57 2232.2     2   0.39   14.7%  mod.sources
 26  6600   484   95%   308  647.0    46   0.39    4.2%  sci.physics
 27  5800   426   84%   341  565.6    58   0.39    3.7%  rec.arts.tv
 28  2500   183   82%   182  236.7    73   0.38    1.6%  rec.sport.baseball
 29  3900   286   91%   171  351.0    43   0.36    2.5%  rec.music.synth
 30  3200   230   89%   140  291.0    43   0.36    2.0%  rec.games.frp
 31  8700   634   87%   451  757.9    51   0.35    5.5%  rec.audio
 32  3400   247   94%   178  294.6    52   0.35    2.2%  soc.culture.indian
 33  5700   414   84%   290  479.8    50   0.34    3.6%  rec.arts.startrek
 34  2900   214   82%   127  229.2    43   0.32    1.9%  rec.sport.football
 35  2600   187   81%   138  207.9    53   0.32    1.6%  rec.sport.basketball
 36  7900   572   96%   272  613.0    34   0.31    5.0%  sci.math
 37  2500   179   82%   114  193.5    45   0.31    1.6%  rec.motorcycles
 38  7500   548   94%   268  564.3    35   0.30    4.8%  sci.space
 39  7300   532   95%   271  541.2    37   0.30    4.6%  sci.astro
 40  2500   179   82%   101  187.0    40   0.30    1.6%  rec.arts.tv.soaps