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Subject: TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY TRAFFIC VOLUME (SEP 89)
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Date: 1 Oct 89 13:07:37 GMT
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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