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From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid)
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Subject: TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY (MAY 88)
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Date: 1 Jun 88 20:13:12 GMT
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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)
       |     |     |      |     |      +-- Crossposting percentage
       |     |     |      |     |      |    +-- Cost ratio: $US/month/reader
       |     |     |      |     |      |    |       +-- Share: % of newsreaders
       |     |     |      |     |      |    |       |   who read this group.
       V     V     V      V     V      V    V       V
  1 38000  3469   99%    21  120.2     0%  0.01   16.6%  news.announce.conferences
  2 30000  2758   99%    53 1987.6     6%  0.13   13.2%  comp.sources.unix
  3 28000  2610   97%   871 1601.6    21%  0.11   12.5%  comp.sys.ibm.pc
  4 28000  2609   95%   143  279.2    16%  0.02   12.5%  misc.jobs.offered
  5 26000  2382   85%    45   90.2     0%  0.01   11.4%  rec.humor.funny
  6 23000  2132   99%    12  245.9     0%  0.02   10.2%  comp.sources.misc
  7 23000  2107   87%   790 1290.8    13%  0.09   10.1%  rec.humor
  8 21000  1894   99%   169  371.5    57%  0.03    9.1%  comp.sources.d
  9 20000  1807   99%   750 1238.4    20%  0.12    8.7%  comp.unix.wizards
 10 19000  1792   91%   219  252.8    39%  0.02    8.6%  misc.forsale
 11 19000  1776   97%   595 1038.2    10%  0.10    8.5%  comp.lang.c
 12 18000  1683   99%    26  200.8    16%  0.02    8.1%  news.announce.newusers
 13 18000  1670   98%   405  652.3    24%  0.07    8.0%  comp.unix.questions
 14 18000  1654   98%  1270 2125.8     9%  0.22    7.9%  comp.sys.mac
 15 18000  1651   97%   158  254.1    14%  0.03    7.9%  comp.graphics
 16 17000  1538   96%   110 4203.4     3%  0.45    7.4%  comp.binaries.ibm.pc
 17 17000  1533   99%   140  161.2    44%  0.02    7.4%  misc.wanted
 18 17000  1520   99%   232  316.4    30%  0.04    7.3%  comp.sources.wanted
 19 16000  1494   97%   174  310.3    34%  0.04    7.2%  comp.misc
 20 16000  1472   99%   573 1139.2    24%  0.13    7.1%  news.groups
 21 16000  1440   91%   357  654.4    33%  0.07    6.9%  misc.consumers
 22 16000  1436   89%  1060 1815.7     8%  0.19    6.9%  soc.singles
 23 15000  1395   97%   414  844.1    16%  0.10    6.7%  comp.arch
 24 15000  1349   99%    52  114.7    12%  0.01    6.5%  comp.sources.bugs
 25 14000  1306   97%  1366 2454.8     6%  0.32    6.3%  comp.sys.amiga
 26 14000  1284   99%   280  644.5    30%  0.09    6.2%  news.admin
 27 14000  1273   98%     4    7.1     0%  0.00    6.1%  comp.newprod
 28 14000  1270   95%    79  151.8    18%  0.02    6.1%  misc.jobs.misc
 29 14000  1269   97%   397  723.5     6%  0.10    6.1%  sci.space
 30 14000  1268   98%    75  134.2    10%  0.02    6.1%  comp.databases
 31 13000  1239   73%     7  190.0     0%  0.02    5.9%  alt.sources
 32 13000  1178   97%    58   89.5    31%  0.01    5.7%  misc.misc
 33 13000  1177   96%   258  633.4     6%  0.09    5.6%  comp.ai
 34 13000  1173   90%  1246 2246.3     5%  0.30    5.6%  rec.arts.startrek
 35 13000  1163   98%    24  468.6     0%  0.07    5.6%  comp.risks
 36 13000  1157   89%    55   95.0     6%  0.01    5.5%  rec.nude
 37 12000  1135   99%    84  345.0    18%  0.05    5.4%  news.misc
 38 12000  1123   91%   266  409.0    14%  0.06    5.4%  misc.consumers.house
 39 12000  1111   82%  1791 2281.4     6%  0.30    5.3%  talk.bizarre
 40 12000  1078   90%   606 1316.2    20%  0.19    5.2%  soc.women