Xref: utzoo news.lists:640 news.groups:6396 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!purdue!decwrl!reid From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups Subject: TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY TRAFFIC VOLUME (NOV 88) Message-ID: <16538@decwrl.dec.com> Date: 1 Dec 88 11:52:43 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 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