Xref: utzoo news.lists:505 news.groups:4200 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 PER-READER COST (MAY 88) Message-ID: <13151@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: 1 Jun 88 20:13:29 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 PER-READER COST 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 2300 215 86% 617 1883.8 5% 1.30 1.0% talk.origins 2 4900 449 92% 160 2780.2 0% 1.00 2.2% comp.mail.maps 3 4400 409 89% 1046 2359.7 12% 0.92 2.0% soc.culture.china 4 2600 235 77% 623 1340.5 12% 0.76 1.1% talk.politics.mideast 5 6500 601 86% 880 2303.8 36% 0.58 2.9% talk.politics.misc 6 3600 327 86% 432 1248.9 7% 0.57 1.6% talk.religion.misc 7 3600 328 94% 587 1021.3 3% 0.51 1.6% rec.music.gdead 8 17000 1538 96% 110 4203.4 3% 0.45 7.4% comp.binaries.ibm.pc 9 7400 681 98% 765 1687.4 2% 0.43 3.3% comp.os.vms 10 5000 460 90% 672 1202.6 3% 0.42 2.2% rec.aviation 11 4400 405 89% 808 1094.2 1% 0.42 1.9% rec.sport.baseball 12 4800 438 95% 28 992.9 7% 0.38 2.1% comp.binaries.amiga 13 2900 264 70% 32 818.2 0% 0.38 1.3% comp.binaries.apple2 14 5800 536 96% 34 1133.1 0% 0.36 2.6% comp.binaries.atari.st 15 9800 901 95% 1053 1767.4 8% 0.33 4.3% rec.music.misc 16 3800 350 89% 447 727.7 1% 0.33 1.7% rec.sport.basketball 17 14000 1306 97% 1366 2454.8 6% 0.32 6.3% comp.sys.amiga 18 260 24 53% 1 82.7 0% 0.32 0.1% rec.mag.fsfnet 19 5700 521 94% 354 982.1 4% 0.31 2.5% rec.games.frp 20 1900 175 86% 107 361.5 5% 0.31 0.8% talk.politics.theory 21 13000 1173 90% 1246 2246.3 5% 0.30 5.6% rec.arts.startrek 22 12000 1111 82% 1791 2281.4 6% 0.30 5.3% talk.bizarre 23 12000 1072 95% 1043 1909.9 7% 0.29 5.1% rec.arts.sf-lovers 24 12000 1061 97% 67 1742.7 0% 0.27 5.1% comp.binaries.mac 25 6800 621 94% 517 1013.4 4% 0.27 3.0% soc.culture.indian 26 5800 536 90% 268 884.3 6% 0.26 2.6% rec.arts.comics 27 5400 501 82% 428 889.8 3% 0.26 2.4% comp.sys.amiga.tech 28 7900 724 98% 210 979.2 3% 0.23 3.5% comp.os.minix 29 18000 1654 98% 1270 2125.8 9% 0.22 7.9% comp.sys.mac 30 4500 411 91% 182 571.0 5% 0.22 2.0% soc.culture.japan 31 2800 256 89% 199 344.7 1% 0.21 1.2% rec.sport.hockey 32 12000 1061 90% 771 1390.2 33% 0.20 5.1% rec.autos 33 16000 1436 89% 1060 1815.7 8% 0.19 6.9% soc.singles 34 12000 1078 90% 606 1316.2 20% 0.19 5.2% soc.women 35 6600 607 96% 416 679.7 2% 0.19 2.9% comp.sys.apple 36 6500 599 95% 261 671.7 9% 0.19 2.9% rec.ham-radio 37 5800 531 97% 18 591.6 0% 0.19 2.5% comp.sources.atari.st 38 5600 515 89% 367 624.6 1% 0.19 2.5% rec.bicycles 39 4400 403 94% 190 473.7 51% 0.19 1.9% soc.culture.jewish 40 3300 303 90% 240 368.7 4% 0.19 1.5% rec.motorcycles