Xref: utzoo news.lists:637 news.groups:6393 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 POPULARITY (NOV 88) Message-ID: <16535@decwrl.dec.com> Date: 1 Dec 88 11:52:29 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 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 56000 3792 98% 24 99.0 0% 0.00 15.2% news.announce.conferences 2 42000 2816 87% 68 138.2 5% 0.01 11.3% rec.humor.funny 3 41000 2792 98% 39 1490.2 8% 0.07 11.2% comp.sources.unix 4 41000 2759 96% 1009 1583.6 10% 0.07 11.1% comp.sys.ibm.pc 5 39000 2648 99% 6 70.7 0% 0.00 10.6% news.announce.newusers 6 37000 2526 95% 178 312.4 8% 0.01 10.2% misc.jobs.offered 7 37000 2510 97% 342 544.0 16% 0.03 10.1% comp.unix.questions 8 34000 2303 98% 33 657.8 0% 0.04 9.3% comp.sources.misc 9 33000 2243 87% 282 302.7 36% 0.01 9.0% misc.forsale 10 32000 2192 60% 781 1140.3 8% 0.04 8.8% alt.sex 11 30000 2056 84% 1133 1673.2 3% 0.09 8.3% rec.humor 12 29000 1979 99% 875 1514.5 18% 0.09 8.0% comp.unix.wizards 13 28000 1927 98% 324 621.1 34% 0.04 7.7% news.groups 14 28000 1915 98% 120 199.9 18% 0.01 7.7% comp.sources.d 15 28000 1905 97% 668 1131.4 11% 0.07 7.7% comp.lang.c 16 27000 1819 97% 1237 2029.9 14% 0.13 7.3% comp.sys.mac 17 27000 1804 97% 237 518.0 9% 0.03 7.3% comp.misc 18 26000 1776 97% 133 141.6 41% 0.01 7.1% misc.wanted 19 25000 1721 97% 252 439.2 21% 0.03 6.9% comp.graphics 20 24000 1652 98% 287 565.3 57% 0.04 6.6% news.admin 21 23000 1587 98% 425 821.1 5% 0.06 6.4% comp.arch 22 23000 1572 98% 211 252.6 28% 0.02 6.3% comp.sources.wanted 23 22000 1515 95% 41 1569.9 0% 0.12 6.1% comp.binaries.ibm.pc 24 22000 1508 98% 213 373.4 61% 0.03 6.1% news.misc 25 22000 1502 68% 385 730.6 10% 0.04 6.0% comp.sys.next 26 22000 1481 98% 10 521.9 0% 0.04 6.0% comp.sources.games 27 21000 1446 86% 1541 2375.5 4% 0.18 5.8% soc.singles 28 21000 1439 97% 18 61.0 0% 0.01 5.8% comp.newprod 29 21000 1415 99% 3 10.9 67% 0.00 5.7% news.announce.important 30 20000 1376 88% 484 757.2 34% 0.06 5.5% misc.consumers 31 20000 1370 87% 385 567.7 9% 0.05 5.5% misc.consumers.house 32 19000 1276 95% 113 189.4 2% 0.02 5.1% misc.jobs.misc 33 19000 1256 96% 249 471.5 38% 0.04 5.1% comp.ai 34 18000 1243 98% 70 510.0 6% 0.05 5.0% comp.sources.bugs 35 18000 1240 80% 15 308.3 14% 0.03 5.0% alt.sources 36 18000 1238 96% 152 196.6 26% 0.02 5.0% misc.misc 37 18000 1233 87% 1087 2202.6 2% 0.20 5.0% rec.arts.startrek 38 18000 1232 98% 18 155.3 53% 0.02 5.0% news.lists 39 18000 1228 98% 17 341.6 0% 0.03 4.9% comp.risks 40 18000 1204 88% 665 864.0 2% 0.08 4.8% rec.arts.movies