Xref: utzoo news.lists:960 news.groups:12711 Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!ginosko!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!usc!henry.jpl.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!reid From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups Subject: TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PER-READER COST (SEP 89) Message-ID: <211@apostrophe.dec.com> Date: 1 Oct 89 13:06:57 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 3800 173 85% 628 1284.5 0% 0.52 0.7% misc.handicap 2 13000 565 94% 121 3764.8 3% 0.50 2.4% comp.binaries.atari.st 3 4300 195 66% 266 1466.2 0% 0.41 0.8% misc.headlines.unitex 4 10000 453 88% 109 2450.8 0% 0.40 1.9% comp.mail.maps 5 4700 213 67% 660 1475.6 7% 0.39 0.9% talk.politics.guns 6 6900 311 81% 733 1724.0 0% 0.37 1.3% talk.abortion 7 9200 414 81% 858 2209.4 1% 0.36 1.8% talk.religion.misc 8 7800 354 79% 748 1834.8 16% 0.34 1.5% talk.politics.mideast 9 11000 478 85% 1275 2331.3 1% 0.33 2.0% rec.sport.football 10 11000 490 93% 686 2008.6 2% 0.31 2.1% rec.games.frp 11 4800 217 81% 298 916.9 8% 0.28 0.9% talk.origins 12 1500 66 50% 347 462.9 0% 0.28 0.3% alt.cosuard 13 4400 197 82% 192 788.9 0% 0.27 0.8% soc.religion.christian 14 3800 171 46% 617 1215.2 3% 0.27 0.7% soc.culture.taiwan 15 15000 699 84% 1163 2406.4 3% 0.25 3.0% soc.motss 16 13000 583 88% 837 1995.9 0% 0.25 2.5% rec.aviation 17 12000 545 86% 995 1920.3 2% 0.25 2.3% rec.arts.comics 18 13000 577 85% 1208 2044.7 1% 0.24 2.5% rec.sport.baseball 19 12000 549 96% 1052 1565.4 1% 0.23 2.3% comp.sys.apple 20 11000 476 59% 911 2304.1 8% 0.23 2.0% sci.skeptic 21 4900 221 93% 67 659.2 0% 0.23 0.9% rec.games.go 22 24000 1086 86% 1292 3336.6 2% 0.22 4.6% rec.arts.startrek 23 5600 254 94% 366 716.9 0% 0.22 1.1% rec.music.gaffa 24 1000 47 68% 2 174.3 0% 0.22 0.2% rec.mag.fsfnet 25 11000 474 93% 740 1368.2 6% 0.21 2.0% rec.music.gdead 26 8400 378 87% 593 1093.6 1% 0.21 1.6% rec.motorcycles 27 16000 725 97% 399 1829.7 0% 0.20 3.1% comp.os.minix 28 15000 661 96% 777 1727.5 2% 0.20 2.8% comp.os.vms 29 5300 241 93% 106 625.0 7% 0.20 1.0% rec.games.pbm 30 20000 921 82% 1045 2569.5 16% 0.19 3.9% talk.politics.misc 31 14000 641 93% 718 1573.1 4% 0.19 2.7% rec.ham-radio 32 4400 198 91% 25 497.5 0% 0.19 0.8% comp.binaries.apple2 33 12000 546 85% 709 1408.9 0% 0.18 2.3% rec.arts.tv.soaps 34 5800 263 62% 481 897.6 5% 0.18 1.1% soc.culture.hongkong 35 4700 214 80% 213 580.3 5% 0.18 0.9% talk.politics.theory 36 30000 1336 83% 1791 3239.7 12% 0.17 5.7% soc.singles 37 26000 1186 90% 978 2672.2 10% 0.17 5.1% soc.culture.china 38 25000 1140 95% 85 2447.2 0% 0.17 4.9% comp.binaries.mac 39 15000 663 97% 573 1398.7 0% 0.17 2.8% comp.dcom.telecom 40 6300 286 94% 65 626.9 20% 0.17 1.2% sci.med.aids