BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY (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 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