Xref: utzoo news.lists:507 news.groups:4202 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 TRAFFIC VOLUME (MAY 88) Message-ID: <13153@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: 1 Jun 88 20:13:48 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 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) | | | | | +-- Crossposting percentage | | | | | | +-- Cost ratio: $US/month/reader | | | | | | | +-- Share: % of newsreaders | | | | | | | | who read this group. V V V V V V V V 1 17000 1538 96% 110 4203.4 3% 0.45 7.4% comp.binaries.ibm.pc 2 4900 449 92% 160 2780.2 0% 1.00 2.2% comp.mail.maps 3 14000 1306 97% 1366 2454.8 6% 0.32 6.3% comp.sys.amiga 4 4400 409 89% 1046 2359.7 12% 0.92 2.0% soc.culture.china 5 6500 601 86% 880 2303.8 36% 0.58 2.9% talk.politics.misc 6 12000 1111 82% 1791 2281.4 6% 0.30 5.3% talk.bizarre 7 13000 1173 90% 1246 2246.3 5% 0.30 5.6% rec.arts.startrek 8 18000 1654 98% 1270 2125.8 9% 0.22 7.9% comp.sys.mac 9 30000 2758 99% 53 1987.6 6% 0.13 13.2% comp.sources.unix 10 12000 1072 95% 1043 1909.9 7% 0.29 5.1% rec.arts.sf-lovers 11 2300 215 86% 617 1883.8 5% 1.30 1.0% talk.origins 12 16000 1436 89% 1060 1815.7 8% 0.19 6.9% soc.singles 13 9800 901 95% 1053 1767.4 8% 0.33 4.3% rec.music.misc 14 12000 1061 97% 67 1742.7 0% 0.27 5.1% comp.binaries.mac 15 7400 681 98% 765 1687.4 2% 0.43 3.3% comp.os.vms 16 28000 2610 97% 871 1601.6 21% 0.11 12.5% comp.sys.ibm.pc 17 12000 1061 90% 771 1390.2 33% 0.20 5.1% rec.autos 18 2600 235 77% 623 1340.5 12% 0.76 1.1% talk.politics.mideast 19 12000 1078 90% 606 1316.2 20% 0.19 5.2% soc.women 20 23000 2107 87% 790 1290.8 13% 0.09 10.1% rec.humor 21 3600 327 86% 432 1248.9 7% 0.57 1.6% talk.religion.misc 22 20000 1807 99% 750 1238.4 20% 0.12 8.7% comp.unix.wizards 23 5000 460 90% 672 1202.6 3% 0.42 2.2% rec.aviation 24 16000 1472 99% 573 1139.2 24% 0.13 7.1% news.groups 25 5800 536 96% 34 1133.1 0% 0.36 2.6% comp.binaries.atari.st 26 4400 405 89% 808 1094.2 1% 0.42 1.9% rec.sport.baseball 27 19000 1776 97% 595 1038.2 10% 0.10 8.5% comp.lang.c 28 3600 328 94% 587 1021.3 3% 0.51 1.6% rec.music.gdead 29 6800 621 94% 517 1013.4 4% 0.27 3.0% soc.culture.indian 30 4800 438 95% 28 992.9 7% 0.38 2.1% comp.binaries.amiga 31 5700 521 94% 354 982.1 4% 0.31 2.5% rec.games.frp 32 7900 724 98% 210 979.2 3% 0.23 3.5% comp.os.minix 33 5400 501 82% 428 889.8 3% 0.26 2.4% comp.sys.amiga.tech 34 5800 536 90% 268 884.3 6% 0.26 2.6% rec.arts.comics 35 15000 1395 97% 414 844.1 16% 0.10 6.7% comp.arch 36 9200 847 91% 380 828.9 44% 0.16 4.1% misc.legal 37 2900 264 70% 32 818.2 0% 0.38 1.3% comp.binaries.apple2 38 8400 771 98% 18 810.2 0% 0.18 3.7% comp.sources.games 39 10000 920 97% 412 780.6 4% 0.14 4.4% comp.windows.x 40 11000 1043 90% 473 762.9 15% 0.12 5.0% rec.arts.movies