Xref: utzoo news.lists:639 news.groups:6395 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 AMOUNT OF CROSSPOSTING (NOV 88) Message-ID: <16537@decwrl.dec.com> Date: 1 Dec 88 11:52:39 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 AMOUNT OF CROSSPOSTING 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 3800 258 98% 1 0.9 100% 0.00 1.0% comp.std.misc 2 21000 1415 99% 3 10.9 67% 0.00 5.7% news.announce.important 3 4800 329 93% 3 4.4 67% 0.00 1.3% soc.culture.misc 4 22000 1508 98% 213 373.4 61% 0.03 6.1% news.misc 5 11000 726 87% 491 1315.2 61% 0.19 2.9% misc.headlines 6 3600 241 77% 5 13.9 60% 0.01 1.0% comp.theory.dynamic-sys 7 3300 221 60% 5 7.5 60% 0.00 0.9% comp.sys.super 8 24000 1652 98% 287 565.3 57% 0.04 6.6% news.admin 9 18000 1232 98% 18 155.3 53% 0.02 5.0% news.lists 10 6700 457 96% 2 2.8 50% 0.00 1.8% comp.protocols.iso 11 4600 309 98% 42 112.6 50% 0.04 1.2% comp.os.os9 12 1800 120 52% 4 7.8 50% 0.00 0.5% alt.great-lakes 13 1500 102 61% 2 3.5 50% 0.00 0.4% comp.lang.lisp.franz 14 88 6 1% 4 20.5 50% 0.00 0.0% unix-pc.bugs 15 13000 858 96% 41 68.3 49% 0.01 3.4% sci.misc 16 4000 272 85% 58 134.4 49% 0.05 1.1% talk.philosophy.misc 17 11000 772 98% 50 78.9 47% 0.01 3.1% comp.bugs.sys5 18 12000 820 98% 55 98.1 44% 0.01 3.3% comp.bugs.4bsd 19 6000 404 80% 12 26.5 42% 0.01 1.6% comp.periphs.printers 20 26000 1776 97% 133 141.6 41% 0.01 7.1% misc.wanted 21 13000 856 98% 18 78.3 41% 0.01 3.4% comp.std.unix 22 5000 341 45% 49 210.2 41% 0.03 1.4% alt.bbs 23 14000 933 96% 154 276.4 39% 0.03 3.8% sci.astro 24 6700 452 96% 19 199.6 39% 0.05 1.8% comp.lsi 25 19000 1256 96% 249 471.5 38% 0.04 5.1% comp.ai 26 2500 170 85% 34 67.6 38% 0.04 0.7% soc.culture.arabic 27 12000 826 96% 32 90.2 37% 0.01 3.3% comp.edu 28 120 8 1% 155 249.6 37% 0.04 0.0% unix-pc.general 29 33000 2243 87% 282 302.7 36% 0.01 9.0% misc.forsale 30 11000 739 88% 367 823.0 36% 0.12 3.0% misc.legal 31 8000 540 93% 36 99.3 35% 0.02 2.2% comp.fonts 32 28000 1927 98% 324 621.1 34% 0.04 7.7% news.groups 33 20000 1376 88% 484 757.2 34% 0.06 5.5% misc.consumers 34 3800 260 79% 65 151.1 34% 0.06 1.0% comp.sys.handhelds 35 11000 727 98% 19 20.8 33% 0.00 2.9% news.config 36 6000 406 87% 3 4.1 33% 0.00 1.6% rec.misc 37 2900 198 93% 3 11.4 33% 0.01 0.8% rec.games.trivia 38 7300 492 97% 45 68.3 31% 0.02 2.0% sci.bio 39 5800 391 93% 91 135.1 31% 0.04 1.6% rec.music.folk 40 11000 773 96% 10 12.9 30% 0.00 3.1% comp.windows.misc