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From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid)
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Subject: TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY TRAFFIC VOLUME (NOV 88)
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Date: 1 Dec 88 11:52:43 GMT
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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 11000   747   85%  2127 5358.4    23%  0.76    3.0%  talk.politics.misc
  2  7400   502   89%   166 2712.7     0%  0.60    2.0%  comp.mail.maps
  3 17000  1130   94%  1615 2698.9     8%  0.27    4.5%  rec.music.misc
  4 21000  1446   86%  1541 2375.5     4%  0.18    5.8%  soc.singles
  5  8300   561   93%   773 2348.0     0%  0.49    2.3%  rec.games.frp
  6  3600   246   79%   883 2306.8    13%  0.93    1.0%  talk.politics.mideast
  7 18000  1233   87%  1087 2202.6     2%  0.20    5.0%  rec.arts.startrek
  8  8300   561   90%   971 2161.7     3%  0.43    2.3%  soc.culture.china
  9  9800   664   86%   966 2072.3     7%  0.33    2.7%  soc.motss
 10 18000  1197   96%  1190 2039.1     5%  0.20    4.8%  comp.sys.amiga
 11 27000  1819   97%  1237 2029.9    14%  0.13    7.3%  comp.sys.mac
 12  7000   478   87%   969 1956.3     0%  0.45    1.9%  rec.arts.comics
 13 10000   704   98%   750 1832.1     4%  0.33    2.8%  comp.os.vms
 14 11000   725   98%   363 1732.7     4%  0.28    2.9%  comp.os.minix
 15 30000  2056   84%  1133 1673.2     3%  0.09    8.3%  rec.humor
 16 41000  2759   96%  1009 1583.6    10%  0.07   11.1%  comp.sys.ibm.pc
 17 15000  1028   86%   911 1580.3    27%  0.17    4.1%  rec.autos
 18 22000  1515   95%    41 1569.9     0%  0.12    6.1%  comp.binaries.ibm.pc
 19 29000  1979   99%   875 1514.5    18%  0.09    8.0%  comp.unix.wizards
 20 10000   686   85%   621 1512.9    22%  0.24    2.8%  soc.men
 21 41000  2792   98%    39 1490.2     8%  0.07   11.2%  comp.sources.unix
 22  9400   636   93%   657 1473.3     1%  0.27    2.6%  soc.culture.indian
 23 15000  1000   94%   837 1445.7     1%  0.17    4.0%  rec.arts.sf-lovers
 24 11000   733   80%  1242 1355.3     3%  0.18    2.9%  talk.bizarre
 25  6100   413   93%   551 1326.4    19%  0.37    1.7%  soc.culture.jewish
 26 14000   966   96%   604 1326.2    14%  0.17    3.9%  sci.space
 27 11000   726   87%   491 1315.2    61%  0.19    2.9%  misc.headlines
 28 32000  2192   60%   781 1140.3     8%  0.04    8.8%  alt.sex
 29 28000  1905   97%   668 1131.4    11%  0.07    7.7%  comp.lang.c
 30  4900   330   84%   424 1119.0     8%  0.36    1.3%  talk.religion.misc
 31  7700   522   88%   498 1044.4     1%  0.22    2.1%  rec.aviation
 32 13000   892   87%   421 1029.8    11%  0.13    3.6%  soc.women
 33 17000  1170   96%    33 1002.1     0%  0.10    4.7%  comp.binaries.mac
 34 15000  1039   99%   557  994.2    17%  0.12    4.2%  comp.protocols.tcp-ip
 35  8800   597   95%   576  952.9     2%  0.19    2.4%  rec.music.classical
 36  7400   505   85%   488  933.7     0%  0.20    2.0%  rec.sport.football
 37 17000  1145   98%   594  922.8     3%  0.10    4.6%  comp.windows.x
 38  4600   310   86%   488  892.5     1%  0.31    1.2%  rec.motorcycles
 39 18000  1204   88%   665  864.0     2%  0.08    4.8%  rec.arts.movies
 40 16000  1059   99%   446  852.8    16%  0.10    4.3%  news.sysadmin