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: BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY (DEC 86) Message-ID: <7318@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: Thu, 1-Jan-87 11:11:27 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.7318 Posted: Thu Jan 1 11:11:27 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 1-Jan-87 22:16:20 EST Sender: reid@decwrl.DEC.COM Organization: DEC Western Research Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif., USA Lines: 34 Approved: reid@decwrl.UUCP Xref: mnetor news.lists:28 news.groups:114 BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY 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 193 1200 99 87% 1 1.4 1 0.00 0.8% soc.roots 194 1200 99 74% 28 37.4 23 0.13 0.8% rec.games.empire 195 1200 97 88% 8 9.6 7 0.03 0.8% comp.os.eunice 196 1100 94 73% 18 23.3 16 0.09 0.8% rec.sport.baseball 197 1100 93 73% 52 99.8 48 0.36 0.8% rec.arts.tv.soaps 198 1100 92 72% 11 11.9 10 0.04 0.8% rec.sport.hockey 199 1100 91 71% 14 29.8 12 0.11 0.8% rec.boats 200 1100 90 73% 12 15.3 11 0.06 0.8% rec.arts.poems 201 1100 89 75% 14 18.9 12 0.07 0.7% rec.games.go 202 1000 88 71% 20 40.4 20 0.16 0.7% rec.scuba 203 1000 87 76% 5 9.4 5 0.04 0.7% rec.games.pbm 204 1000 85 92% 4 5.6 4 0.02 0.7% soc.culture.greek 205 980 82 76% 17 35.9 17 0.15 0.7% rec.games.bridge 206 960 81 76% 144 186.6 150 0.78 0.7% rec.music.gdead 207 950 80 74% 22 176.6 24 0.75 0.7% rec.ham-radio.packet 208 890 75 34% 1 5.0 1 0.02 0.6% comp.sources.bugs 209 870 73 68% 12 21.2 14 0.10 0.6% rec.skydiving 210 870 73 33% 1 1.0 1 0.00 0.6% comp.sources.games 211 810 68 73% 15 18.6 19 0.09 0.6% rec.birds 212 770 65 88% 1 1.3 1 0.01 0.5% comp.sys.ti