Xref: utzoo news.lists:504 news.groups:4199 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 POPULARITY (MAY 88) Message-ID: <13150@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: 1 Jun 88 20:13:12 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 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