This article is from the Motorsport FAQ, by A H Henry bspahh@midge.bath.ac.uk with numerous contributions by others.
This is taken from the Usenet readership report for January 1995.
Explanations of the figures are posted to news.lists. Briefly, someone
is listed as reading a newsgroup if they are subscribed to it.
+-- Ranking in order of most popular newsgroups | +-- 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 (megabytes per month) | | | | | | +-- Crossposting percentage | | | | | | | +-- Cost ratio: \$US/month/reader | | | | | | | | +-- Share: \% of newsreaders | | | | | | | | | who read this group. V V V V V V V V V 194 100000 604 76% 4082 6.2 8% 0.05 0.9% rec.autos.tech 800 49000 353 61% 3240 4.8 10% 0.07 0.5% rec.autos.misc 912 44000 321 60% 1123 1.1 11% 0.02 0.5% rec.autos.marketplace 1006 40000 337 52% 21 0.0 55% 0.00 0.5% rec.autos.sport 1297 31000 228 60% 525 0.9 4% 0.02 0.3% rec.autos.simulators 1382 28000 276 45% 120 0.1 50% 0.00 0.4% rec.autos 1477 26000 219 51% 1986 3.2 1% 0.07 0.3% rec.autos.sport.f1 1610 23000 191 54% 115 0.4 6% 0.01 0.3% rec.autos.sport.info 1655 22000 175 56% 1523 2.6 1% 0.08 0.3% rec.autos.sport.nascar 1701 21000 171 54% 311 0.7 11% 0.02 0.3% rec.autos.sport.misc 1842 18000 155 51% 466 0.6 6% 0.02 0.2% rec.autos.sport.indy 1899 17000 138 55% 218 0.3 11% 0.01 0.2% rec.autos.sport.tech
 
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