Xref: utzoo news.lists:958 news.groups:12709 Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!ginosko!ctrsol!cica!iuvax!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 (SEP 89) Message-ID: <212@apostrophe.dec.com> Date: 1 Oct 89 13:07:18 GMT 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 5600 254 76% 1 1.3 100% 0.00 1.1% gnu.config 2 3200 145 96% 1 0.8 100% 0.00 0.6% comp.sys.m6809 3 7000 318 95% 12 22.5 75% 0.01 1.4% comp.lsi 4 23000 1050 97% 16 210.7 60% 0.02 4.5% news.lists 5 12000 528 96% 78 140.0 59% 0.02 2.3% sci.bio 6 1900 87 62% 9 10.5 56% 0.01 0.4% alt.prose.d 7 18000 809 96% 72 122.1 54% 0.01 3.5% comp.lang.misc 8 18000 791 97% 2 4.6 50% 0.00 3.4% news.sysadmin 9 3900 177 57% 2 6.9 50% 0.00 0.8% talk.rape 10 1000 47 13% 8 9.2 50% 0.00 0.2% unix-pc.bugs 11 710 32 12% 2 0.8 50% 0.00 0.1% unix-pc.test 12 16000 719 97% 157 697.7 46% 0.08 3.1% comp.sys.att 13 13000 589 95% 38 65.8 44% 0.01 2.5% comp.edu 14 3300 149 79% 36 65.4 44% 0.03 0.6% talk.politics.soviet 15 4200 189 54% 7 32.5 43% 0.01 0.8% alt.cyb-sys 16 15000 686 87% 327 833.2 42% 0.09 2.9% misc.headlines 17 7100 322 83% 5 3.9 40% 0.00 1.4% soc.misc 18 4700 213 69% 5 7.1 40% 0.00 0.9% alt.emusic 19 11000 498 87% 36 60.0 35% 0.01 2.1% comp.theory 20 10000 462 95% 120 181.3 35% 0.03 2.0% sci.lang 21 13000 570 88% 51 126.7 33% 0.02 2.4% comp.editors 22 11000 517 97% 3 9.3 33% 0.00 2.2% comp.bugs.misc 23 6100 277 95% 3 2.9 33% 0.00 1.2% comp.std.internat 24 2400 107 13% 109 175.4 33% 0.02 0.5% unix-pc.general 25 49000 2193 96% 199 190.4 32% 0.01 9.4% misc.wanted 26 7400 333 90% 26 58.6 32% 0.01 1.4% soc.culture.misc 27 6900 312 89% 65 201.0 31% 0.05 1.3% soc.culture.arabic 28 4700 211 84% 17 22.0 31% 0.01 0.9% comp.sys.zenith 29 24000 1073 95% 96 297.6 29% 0.02 4.6% comp.ai 30 13000 576 95% 48 78.4 29% 0.01 2.5% sci.psychology 31 13000 573 98% 40 48.4 29% 0.01 2.4% news.config 32 50000 2246 87% 568 662.6 28% 0.02 9.6% misc.forsale 33 19000 852 84% 478 1189.6 28% 0.10 3.6% soc.women 34 15000 680 94% 19 33.7 28% 0.00 2.9% sci.research 35 17000 761 97% 43 64.2 27% 0.01 3.2% comp.bugs.4bsd 36 7700 346 93% 165 250.3 27% 0.06 1.5% rec.music.folk 37 30000 1360 95% 97 170.7 26% 0.01 5.8% comp.misc 38 19000 844 94% 24 77.3 26% 0.01 3.6% sci.misc 39 15000 665 64% 20 27.1 26% 0.00 2.8% alt.sources.d 40 14000 615 97% 90 120.3 26% 0.02 2.6% comp.sys.dec