BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PROPAGATION (MAR 87)
re...@decwrl.uucp
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
210 1700 133 85% 10 7.3 5 0.02 1.1% rec.arts.poems
211 15000 1187 84% 21 90.3 1 0.03 9.7% net.sources.games
212 8600 663 84% 7 13.5 0 0.01 5.4% rec.nude
213 8300 637 84% 11 11.8 1 0.01 5.2% net.sources.mac
214 3800 295 84% 114 170.2 30 0.20 2.4% rec.pets
215 2900 223 84% 354 557.7 122 0.87 1.8% rec.sport.basketball
216 2800 213 84% 17 24.7 6 0.04 1.7% rec.sport.football
217 2800 212 84% 90 175.2 32 0.28 1.7% rec.sport.misc
218 2400 185 84% 127 161.3 52 0.30 1.5% rec.arts.tv.soaps
219 2400 181 84% 28 46.7 11 0.09 1.5% rec.arts.wobegon
220 2300 180 84% 15 19.4 6 0.04 1.5% rec.sport.hockey
221 1600 122 84% 60 80.9 37 0.23 1.0% rec.birds
222 1300 103 84% 24 43.2 18 0.15 0.8% rec.skydiving
223 1800 138 82% 131 249.9 73 0.62 1.1% misc.handicap
224 10000 768 81% 247 398.2 24 0.18 6.3% comp.windows.x
225 2400 185 80% 48 115.5 20 0.22 1.5% talk.religion.newage
226 1100 87 65% 10 249.3 9 1.00 0.7% comp.binaries.atari.st
227 590 45 65% 1 20.5 2 0.16 0.4% comp.sources.atari.st
228 3500 272 41% 21 67.4 6 0.09 2.2% rec.arts.movies.reviews
229 2000 154 35% 4 16.9 2 0.04 1.3% comp.std.unix