Xref: utzoo news.lists:961 news.groups:12712 Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!ginosko!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!polyslo!decwrl!reid From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups Subject: TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY TRAFFIC VOLUME (SEP 89) Message-ID: <213@apostrophe.dec.com> Date: 1 Oct 89 13:07:37 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 13000 565 94% 121 3764.8 3% 0.50 2.4% comp.binaries.atari.st 2 24000 1086 86% 1292 3336.6 2% 0.22 4.6% rec.arts.startrek 3 30000 1336 83% 1791 3239.7 12% 0.17 5.7% soc.singles 4 41000 1860 96% 1776 2769.3 10% 0.12 7.9% comp.sys.mac 5 35000 1593 85% 105 2705.6 0% 0.12 6.8% alt.sources 6 26000 1186 90% 978 2672.2 10% 0.17 5.1% soc.culture.china 7 20000 921 82% 1045 2569.5 16% 0.19 3.9% talk.politics.misc 8 10000 453 88% 109 2450.8 0% 0.40 1.9% comp.mail.maps 9 25000 1140 95% 85 2447.2 0% 0.17 4.9% comp.binaries.mac 10 15000 699 84% 1163 2406.4 3% 0.25 3.0% soc.motss 11 11000 478 85% 1275 2331.3 1% 0.33 2.0% rec.sport.football 12 11000 476 59% 911 2304.1 8% 0.23 2.0% sci.skeptic 13 25000 1118 96% 1376 2293.9 6% 0.16 4.8% comp.sys.amiga 14 9200 414 81% 858 2209.4 1% 0.36 1.8% talk.religion.misc 15 35000 1595 93% 1088 2086.8 6% 0.10 6.8% rec.arts.movies 16 13000 577 85% 1208 2044.7 1% 0.24 2.5% rec.sport.baseball 17 11000 490 93% 686 2008.6 2% 0.31 2.1% rec.games.frp 18 13000 583 88% 837 1995.9 0% 0.25 2.5% rec.aviation 19 50000 2271 96% 1366 1990.3 9% 0.07 9.7% comp.sys.ibm.pc 20 12000 545 86% 995 1920.3 2% 0.25 2.3% rec.arts.comics 21 20000 900 94% 1111 1873.8 16% 0.16 3.8% rec.music.misc 22 7800 354 79% 748 1834.8 16% 0.34 1.5% talk.politics.mideast 23 16000 725 97% 399 1829.7 0% 0.20 3.1% comp.os.minix 24 29000 1326 86% 1126 1827.7 10% 0.10 5.7% rec.autos 25 15000 661 96% 777 1727.5 2% 0.20 2.8% comp.os.vms 26 6900 311 81% 733 1724.0 0% 0.37 1.3% talk.abortion 27 53000 2395 67% 1011 1668.3 12% 0.04 10.2% alt.sex 28 15000 683 78% 1378 1649.9 2% 0.16 2.9% talk.bizarre 29 34000 1554 97% 34 1645.9 0% 0.09 6.6% comp.sources.games 30 43000 1925 98% 39 1624.4 0% 0.07 8.2% comp.sources.misc 31 14000 641 93% 718 1573.1 4% 0.19 2.7% rec.ham-radio 32 12000 549 96% 1052 1565.4 1% 0.23 2.3% comp.sys.apple 33 36000 1606 97% 918 1560.6 6% 0.08 6.9% comp.lang.c 34 53000 2379 84% 1152 1544.6 3% 0.04 10.2% rec.humor 35 24000 1061 96% 889 1506.4 2% 0.11 4.5% comp.sys.atari.st 36 23000 1059 93% 877 1495.4 5% 0.11 4.5% rec.arts.sf-lovers 37 4700 213 67% 660 1475.6 7% 0.39 0.9% talk.politics.guns 38 4300 195 66% 266 1466.2 0% 0.41 0.8% misc.headlines.unitex 39 12000 546 85% 709 1408.9 0% 0.18 2.3% rec.arts.tv.soaps 40 15000 663 97% 573 1398.7 0% 0.17 2.8% comp.dcom.telecom