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 POPULARITY (DEC 86) Message-ID: <7314@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: Thu, 1-Jan-87 11:09:19 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.7314 Posted: Thu Jan 1 11:09:19 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 1-Jan-87 22:12:51 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:24 news.groups:110 TOP 40 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 1 28000 2334 94% 95 2355.2 3 0.34 19.6% net.sources 2 25000 2113 94% 1 9.6 0 0.00 17.8% mod.announce 3 20000 1652 97% 1 42.0 0 0.01 13.9% mod.sources 4 15000 1265 93% 47 1101.4 3 0.29 10.6% net.sources.games 5 14000 1164 93% 11 51.4 0 0.01 9.8% net.sources.bugs 6 13000 1104 88% 98 130.3 7 0.04 9.3% misc.consumers.house 7 12000 1022 93% 60 155.4 5 0.05 8.6% misc.jobs 8 12000 1018 93% 18 351.8 1 0.12 8.6% net.sources.mac 9 11000 949 96% 8 18.7 0 0.01 8.0% mod.newprod 10 10000 882 96% 2 24.6 0 0.01 7.4% mod.newslists 11 10000 879 96% 57 111.0 5 0.04 7.4% mod.ai 12 9900 835 97% 64 167.3 6 0.07 7.0% mod.recipes 13 9500 796 96% 191 308.3 20 0.13 6.7% mod.computers.vax 14 9300 784 96% 7 12.1 0 0.01 6.6% mod.computers.workstations 15 9200 774 90% 22 42.7 2 0.02 6.5% comp.misc 16 9100 766 96% 11 22.1 1 0.01 6.4% mod.compilers 17 8600 720 96% 18 463.8 2 0.22 6.1% mod.mac 18 8400 702 96% 4 132.7 0 0.06 5.9% mod.computers.ibm-pc 19 8300 697 95% 10 40.7 1 0.02 5.9% mod.os.unix 20 8200 690 96% 1 1.6 0 0.00 5.8% mod.computers.laser-printers 21 8100 684 88% 944 2142.4 116 1.10 5.8% soc.singles 22 8100 683 94% 47 54.9 5 0.03 5.7% misc.wanted 23 8100 679 89% 40 40.4 4 0.02 5.7% misc.forsale 24 8000 676 91% 181 292.8 22 0.15 5.7% comp.unix.wizards 25 7900 660 91% 48 92.6 6 0.05 5.6% comp.sources.d 26 7700 650 97% 15 36.7 2 0.02 5.5% mod.std.unix 27 7600 640 96% 81 2590.7 10 1.40 5.4% mod.mac.binaries 28 7600 640 89% 227 328.3 29 0.17 5.4% comp.unix.questions 29 7600 639 96% 1 11.0 0 0.01 5.4% mod.mac.sources 30 7500 631 89% 367 627.0 48 0.34 5.3% comp.sys.ibm.pc 31 7400 626 93% 37 81.3 5 0.04 5.3% news.misc 32 7200 605 96% 72 135.1 10 0.08 5.1% mod.telecom 33 7200 604 96% 4 26.1 0 0.01 5.1% mod.graphics 34 7100 600 94% 11 181.2 1 0.10 5.0% mod.risks 35 7100 597 97% 167 310.1 23 0.18 5.0% mod.protocols.tcp-ip 36 7000 587 88% 75 96.2 10 0.06 4.9% talk.rumors 37 6900 579 89% 314 540.9 45 0.31 4.9% comp.lang.c 38 6900 576 89% 52 84.2 7 0.05 4.8% comp.graphics 39 6800 573 91% 84 99.5 12 0.06 4.8% comp.sources.wanted 40 6600 558 91% 40 58.7 6 0.04 4.7% news.groups