BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY (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 2100 165 92% 18 26.4 8 0.06 1.4% soc.culture.celtic
211 2100 163 91% 12 15.2 6 0.03 1.3% soc.culture.misc
212 2100 158 86% 41 102.3 19 0.22 1.3% rec.ham-radio.packet
213 2100 158 86% 8 15.5 4 0.03 1.3% soc.roots
214 2000 156 94% 1 1.9 0 0.00 1.3% comp.std.internat
215 2000 154 35% 4 16.9 2 0.04 1.3% comp.std.unix
216 1900 146 85% 4 4.1 2 0.01 1.2% rec.scuba
217 1800 141 92% 68 145.3 38 0.36 1.2% rec.games.bridge
218 1800 138 82% 131 249.9 73 0.62 1.1% misc.handicap
219 1700 133 85% 10 7.3 5 0.02 1.1% rec.arts.poems
220 1600 122 84% 60 80.9 37 0.23 1.0% rec.birds
221 1500 112 86% 32 75.7 21 0.23 0.9% talk.abortion
222 1400 110 94% 7 9.0 5 0.03 0.9% comp.sys.ti
223 1400 108 93% 1 19.4 1 0.06 0.9% mod.os.os9
224 1300 103 84% 24 43.2 18 0.15 0.8% rec.skydiving
225 1300 100 91% 1 0.8 1 0.00 0.8% soc.culture.african
226 1100 87 65% 10 249.3 9 1.00 0.7% comp.binaries.atari.st
227 1100 84 93% 1 1.3 1 0.01 0.7% mod.computers.ridge
228 960 74 92% 54 150.8 56 0.71 0.6% soc.culture.greek
229 590 45 65% 1 20.5 2 0.16 0.4% comp.sources.atari.st