fadden@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Andy McFadden) (03/04/90)
From news.lists...
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TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PER-READER COST
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)
| | | | | +-- Crossposting percentage
| | | | | | +-- Cost ratio: $US/month/reader
| | | | | | | +-- Share: % of newsreaders
| | | | | | | | who read this group.
V V V V V V V V
1 10000 355 86% 997 2754.5 2% 0.44 1.2% talk.abortion
2 15000 523 89% 160 3776.8 0% 0.41 1.8% comp.mail.maps
3 15000 527 93% 116 3059.7 1% 0.35 1.8% comp.binaries.apple2
4 7100 250 87% 454 1431.2 1% 0.32 0.9% talk.origins
5 6600 233 88% 201 1207.8 1% 0.30 0.8% soc.roots
6 20000 689 91% 1958 3491.6 0% 0.29 2.4% rec.sport.basketball
7 20000 691 95% 65 3229.1 2% 0.28 2.4% comp.binaries.amiga
8 14000 504 91% 1294 2176.6 1% 0.26 1.7% rec.motorcycles
9 9500 335 93% 91 1261.3 4% 0.23 1.2% rec.games.go
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Perhaps 'twere best we should tread lightly, so as not to be stepped upon...
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