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Subject: TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY (DEC 86)
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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