BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PROPAGATION (JAN 87)
Brian Reid
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 1700 138 77% 35 45.2 21 0.11 1.2% rec.arts.wobegon
205 1600 130 77% 58 61.3 36 0.16 1.2% rec.sport.baseball
206 1600 125 77% 34 75.9 21 0.19 1.1% rec.ham-radio.packet
207 1500 120 77% 41 60.6 27 0.16 1.1% rec.sport.misc
208 1200 96 77% 8 15.1 7 0.05 0.9% rec.sport.hockey
209 990 78 77% 5 6.5 5 0.03 0.7% rec.birds
210 3500 275 76% 38 52.8 11 0.06 2.5% rec.food.drink
211 2700 214 76% 28 35.4 10 0.05 1.9% rec.gardens
212 2200 171 76% 18 25.0 8 0.05 1.5% rec.boats
213 2100 164 76% 108 165.3 51 0.32 1.5% rec.sport.basketball
214 1800 142 76% 17 24.6 9 0.06 1.3% rec.railroad
215 1500 116 76% 20 32.7 13 0.09 1.0% rec.scuba
216 1100 90 75% 15 26.0 14 0.10 0.8% rec.skydiving
217 6500 517 73% 12 323.4 1 0.20 4.6% news.lists
218 1400 113 62% 57 159.9 40 0.46 1.0% misc.handicap
219 1300 101 56% 48 72.9 37 0.23 0.9% talk.religion.newage
220 1600 128 44% 7 330.6 4 0.84 1.2% mod.mag.fidonet
221 3300 264 38% 184 268.6 55 0.33 2.4% comp.os.minix
222 2500 201 30% 1 3.2 0 0.01 1.8% comp.sources.unix
223 1500 117 30% 4 41.2 2 0.11 1.1% comp.sources.bugs