BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY (FEB 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
205 2300 164 71% 165 389.0 72 0.68 1.4% talk.religion.newage
206 2200 162 82% 37 56.8 16 0.10 1.4% rec.arts.wobegon
207 2100 154 90% 4 154.9 2 0.30 1.3% mod.mag.otherrealms
208 2100 154 81% 61 79.4 29 0.15 1.3% rec.sport.hockey
209 2000 149 89% 235 300.7 117 0.60 1.3% rec.music.gdead
210 2000 145 82% 38 101.6 19 0.20 1.3% rec.ham-radio.packet
211 2000 143 82% 12 18.4 6 0.04 1.2% rec.scuba
212 1900 142 82% 32 36.1 17 0.08 1.2% rec.arts.poems
213 1900 139 88% 7 9.7 3 0.02 1.2% rec.games.empire
214 1900 137 93% 5 7.3 3 0.02 1.2% comp.os.eunice
215 1900 137 89% 75 697.0 39 1.50 1.2% rec.games.pbm
216 1800 132 89% 58 114.8 32 0.26 1.2% rec.games.bridge
217 1700 124 93% 4 3.4 2 0.01 1.1% soc.culture.african
218 1700 124 87% 20 25.5 11 0.06 1.1% soc.roots
219 1600 120 88% 70 177.2 43 0.44 1.0% talk.abortion
220 1600 116 73% 105 292.6 66 0.73 1.0% misc.handicap
221 1300 95 80% 7 7.8 5 0.02 0.8% rec.skydiving
222 1200 85 82% 2 4.1 2 0.01 0.7% rec.birds
223 1000 74 93% 18 35.7 18 0.14 0.6% soc.culture.greek
224 730 53 19% 2 22.8 3 0.12 0.5% talk.politics