Xref: utzoo news.lists:506 news.groups:4201 Path: utzoo!attcan2!uunet!husc6!purdue!decwrl!reid From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups Subject: TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY AMOUNT OF CROSSPOSTING (MAY 88) Message-ID: <13152@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: 1 Jun 88 20:13:40 GMT Sender: reid@decwrl.DEC.COM Organization: DEC Western Research Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif., USA Lines: 54 Approved: reid@decwrl.dec.com TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY AMOUNT OF CROSSPOSTING 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) | | | | | +-- Crossposting percentage | | | | | | +-- Cost ratio: $US/month/reader | | | | | | | +-- Share: % of newsreaders | | | | | | | | who read this group. V V V V V V V V 1 8100 741 97% 3 3.0 100% 0.00 3.6% comp.os.misc 2 1300 119 55% 2 4.5 100% 0.00 0.6% comp.theory.self-org-sys 3 590 54 54% 1 3.5 100% 0.01 0.3% comp.protocols.pcnet 4 350 32 53% 1 2.9 100% 0.01 0.2% comp.lang.forth.mac 5 340 31 54% 1 0.9 100% 0.00 0.1% rec.games.vectrex 6 8500 785 98% 35 351.0 85% 0.08 3.8% news.lists 7 2000 181 75% 27 74.1 77% 0.05 0.9% talk.politics.soviet 8 8100 743 91% 309 748.0 72% 0.16 3.6% misc.headlines 9 7000 646 99% 7 13.1 71% 0.00 3.1% comp.cog-eng 10 21000 1894 99% 169 371.5 57% 0.03 9.1% comp.sources.d 11 4400 403 94% 190 473.7 51% 0.19 1.9% soc.culture.jewish 12 4300 392 58% 6 14.8 50% 0.00 1.9% comp.music 13 3100 282 59% 21 45.4 50% 0.02 1.4% alt.hypertext 14 2300 215 57% 8 13.9 50% 0.01 1.0% comp.sys.handhelds 15 910 84 92% 2 1.9 50% 0.00 0.4% comp.sys.celerity 16 8400 774 97% 21 40.4 45% 0.01 3.7% comp.edu 17 17000 1533 99% 140 161.2 44% 0.02 7.4% misc.wanted 18 9200 847 91% 380 828.9 44% 0.16 4.1% misc.legal 19 5700 528 90% 19 56.9 44% 0.02 2.5% rec.misc 20 3200 291 95% 9 17.3 44% 0.01 1.4% rec.games.trivia 21 11000 975 99% 45 88.9 43% 0.02 4.7% comp.mail.uucp 22 4500 413 98% 7 13.9 43% 0.01 2.0% comp.org.decus 23 3000 276 89% 7 9.5 43% 0.01 1.3% rec.skiing 24 9100 838 99% 21 49.8 40% 0.01 4.0% news.sysadmin 25 19000 1792 91% 219 252.8 39% 0.02 8.6% misc.forsale 26 9900 913 97% 73 110.5 38% 0.02 4.4% comp.periphs 27 9000 826 96% 131 204.0 36% 0.04 4.0% sci.astro 28 6500 601 86% 880 2303.8 36% 0.58 2.9% talk.politics.misc 29 9700 890 99% 18 19.5 35% 0.00 4.3% news.config 30 16000 1494 97% 174 310.3 34% 0.04 7.2% comp.misc 31 11000 1034 99% 121 205.6 34% 0.04 5.0% comp.dcom.lans 32 8400 768 98% 175 380.8 34% 0.08 3.7% comp.unix.xenix 33 16000 1440 91% 357 654.4 33% 0.07 6.9% misc.consumers 34 12000 1061 90% 771 1390.2 33% 0.20 5.1% rec.autos 35 6600 611 98% 16 28.8 33% 0.01 2.9% comp.protocols.misc 36 2600 243 58% 3 12.9 33% 0.01 1.2% comp.ai.edu 37 2100 197 59% 3 3.3 33% 0.00 0.9% sci.math.num-analysis 38 13000 1178 97% 58 89.5 31% 0.01 5.7% misc.misc 39 6700 615 98% 51 85.9 31% 0.02 3.0% sci.bio 40 5400 497 57% 132 195.6 31% 0.04 2.4% alt.flame