Xref: utzoo news.lists:638 news.groups:6394 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 PER-READER COST (NOV 88) Message-ID: <16536@decwrl.dec.com> Date: 1 Dec 88 11:52:35 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 PER-READER COST 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 3600 246 79% 883 2306.8 13% 0.93 1.0% talk.politics.mideast 2 11000 747 85% 2127 5358.4 23% 0.76 3.0% talk.politics.misc 3 7400 502 89% 166 2712.7 0% 0.60 2.0% comp.mail.maps 4 8300 561 93% 773 2348.0 0% 0.49 2.3% rec.games.frp 5 7000 478 87% 969 1956.3 0% 0.45 1.9% rec.arts.comics 6 8300 561 90% 971 2161.7 3% 0.43 2.3% soc.culture.china 7 6100 413 93% 551 1326.4 19% 0.37 1.7% soc.culture.jewish 8 4900 330 84% 424 1119.0 8% 0.36 1.3% talk.religion.misc 9 3400 233 94% 88 679.3 1% 0.35 0.9% comp.sys.sgi 10 10000 704 98% 750 1832.1 4% 0.33 2.8% comp.os.vms 11 9800 664 86% 966 2072.3 7% 0.33 2.7% soc.motss 12 4600 310 86% 488 892.5 1% 0.31 1.2% rec.motorcycles 13 2500 169 86% 155 484.5 1% 0.31 0.7% rec.railroad 14 3100 213 95% 87 537.7 0% 0.30 0.9% rec.music.gaffa 15 11000 725 98% 363 1732.7 4% 0.28 2.9% comp.os.minix 16 3100 208 85% 281 554.9 8% 0.28 0.8% talk.abortion 17 17000 1130 94% 1615 2698.9 8% 0.27 4.5% rec.music.misc 18 9400 636 93% 657 1473.3 1% 0.27 2.6% soc.culture.indian 19 3700 252 84% 246 603.4 3% 0.25 1.0% talk.origins 20 10000 686 85% 621 1512.9 22% 0.24 2.8% soc.men 21 7700 522 88% 498 1044.4 1% 0.22 2.1% rec.aviation 22 4800 329 86% 394 679.7 0% 0.22 1.3% rec.sport.basketball 23 2300 157 62% 218 430.2 1% 0.21 0.6% alt.sca 24 18000 1233 87% 1087 2202.6 2% 0.20 5.0% rec.arts.startrek 25 18000 1197 96% 1190 2039.1 5% 0.20 4.8% comp.sys.amiga 26 7400 505 85% 488 933.7 0% 0.20 2.0% rec.sport.football 27 3700 250 85% 221 473.5 0% 0.20 1.0% rec.sport.hockey 28 3400 233 98% 155 387.7 0% 0.20 0.9% comp.sys.nsc.32k 29 11000 726 87% 491 1315.2 61% 0.19 2.9% misc.headlines 30 8800 597 95% 576 952.9 2% 0.19 2.4% rec.music.classical 31 6200 420 93% 475 686.3 3% 0.19 1.7% rec.music.gdead 32 21000 1446 86% 1541 2375.5 4% 0.18 5.8% soc.singles 33 11000 733 80% 1242 1355.3 3% 0.18 2.9% talk.bizarre 34 4100 278 86% 356 467.0 4% 0.18 1.1% rec.arts.poems 35 2800 193 86% 87 325.2 0% 0.18 0.8% misc.handicap 36 2700 181 93% 105 290.1 3% 0.18 0.7% soc.culture.greek 37 15000 1028 86% 911 1580.3 27% 0.17 4.1% rec.autos 38 15000 1000 94% 837 1445.7 1% 0.17 4.0% rec.arts.sf-lovers 39 14000 966 96% 604 1326.2 14% 0.17 3.9% sci.space 40 5300 359 91% 289 533.6 7% 0.17 1.4% rec.music.beatles