Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!brl-adm!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!decwrl!reid From: reid@decwrl.UUCP (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups Subject: TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY TRAFFIC VOLUME (DEC 86) Message-ID: <7317@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: Thu, 1-Jan-87 11:10:54 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.7317 Posted: Thu Jan 1 11:10:54 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 1-Jan-87 22:15:25 EST Sender: reid@decwrl.DEC.COM Organization: DEC Western Research Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif., USA Lines: 54 Approved: reid@decwrl.UUCP Xref: mnetor news.lists:27 news.groups:113 TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY TRAFFIC VOLUME 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 1 3500 294 88% 754 2821.1 215 3.20 2.5% comp.sys.amiga 2 7600 640 96% 81 2590.7 10 1.40 5.4% mod.mac.binaries 3 28000 2334 94% 95 2355.2 3 0.34 19.6% net.sources 4 8100 684 88% 944 2142.4 116 1.10 5.8% soc.singles 5 3500 298 88% 372 1918.1 106 2.20 2.5% comp.sys.atari.st 6 2200 184 87% 414 1433.1 188 2.60 1.5% talk.religion.misc 7 15000 1265 93% 47 1101.4 3 0.29 10.6% net.sources.games 8 2900 245 88% 428 1038.3 147 1.40 2.1% talk.politics.misc 9 3400 286 76% 557 1019.7 163 1.20 2.4% rec.arts.startrek 10 1900 160 88% 242 808.0 127 1.70 1.3% talk.abortion 11 3300 279 87% 285 775.2 86 0.94 2.3% soc.motss 12 4000 333 79% 305 707.1 76 0.71 2.8% rec.arts.sf-lovers 13 1800 148 75% 247 652.5 137 1.50 1.2% rec.arts.comics 14 7500 631 89% 367 627.0 48 0.34 5.3% comp.sys.ibm.pc 15 2800 232 92% 190 594.8 67 0.85 2.0% soc.culture.indian 16 2700 230 92% 200 558.3 74 0.83 1.9% soc.culture.jewish 17 6900 579 89% 314 540.9 45 0.31 4.9% comp.lang.c 18 1800 155 88% 134 524.0 74 1.20 1.3% talk.origins 19 4700 396 75% 305 489.4 65 0.42 3.3% rec.arts.movies 20 8600 720 96% 18 463.8 2 0.22 6.1% mod.mac 21 2700 226 89% 171 450.4 63 0.67 1.9% mod.music.gaffa 22 6500 545 90% 277 434.3 42 0.27 4.6% comp.sys.mac 23 2600 221 89% 190 431.9 73 0.67 1.9% comp.sys.apple 24 5700 476 88% 191 425.5 33 0.30 4.0% soc.women 25 6000 504 88% 297 422.8 49 0.28 4.2% talk.bizarre 26 2500 206 77% 278 408.8 111 0.66 1.7% rec.music.misc 27 6400 538 74% 240 356.0 37 0.22 4.5% rec.humor 28 12000 1018 93% 18 351.8 1 0.12 8.6% net.sources.mac 29 1600 133 74% 212 351.4 133 0.88 1.1% rec.aviation 30 1400 116 74% 130 333.1 92 0.95 1.0% rec.ham-radio 31 3800 317 58% 15 329.3 4 0.35 2.7% news.lists 32 7600 640 89% 227 328.3 29 0.17 5.4% comp.unix.questions 33 7100 597 97% 167 310.1 23 0.18 5.0% mod.protocols.tcp-ip 34 9500 796 96% 191 308.3 20 0.13 6.7% mod.computers.vax 35 2200 189 89% 64 295.5 29 0.54 1.6% talk.philosophy.misc 36 2600 216 74% 195 295.4 75 0.46 1.8% rec.video 37 5100 429 91% 104 293.9 20 0.23 3.6% comp.emacs 38 8000 676 91% 181 292.8 22 0.15 5.7% comp.unix.wizards 39 4000 334 76% 162 281.9 40 0.28 2.8% rec.audio 40 4400 371 91% 90 274.1 20 0.25 3.1% news.software.b