Xref: utzoo news.lists:959 news.groups:12710 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 POPULARITY (SEP 89) Message-ID: <210@apostrophe.dec.com> Date: 1 Oct 89 13:06:36 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 POPULARITY 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 70000 3170 94% 52 117.6 0% 0.00 13.5% rec.humor.funny 2 59000 2646 94% 264 561.9 6% 0.02 11.3% misc.jobs.offered 3 53000 2395 67% 1011 1668.3 12% 0.04 10.2% alt.sex 4 53000 2379 84% 1152 1544.6 3% 0.04 10.2% rec.humor 5 52000 2354 97% 37 214.6 3% 0.01 10.0% news.announce.conferences 6 50000 2271 96% 1366 1990.3 9% 0.07 9.7% comp.sys.ibm.pc 7 50000 2246 87% 568 662.6 28% 0.02 9.6% misc.forsale 8 49000 2193 96% 199 190.4 32% 0.01 9.4% misc.wanted 9 47000 2102 95% 337 615.7 15% 0.02 9.0% comp.graphics 10 43000 1925 98% 39 1624.4 0% 0.07 8.2% comp.sources.misc 11 42000 1910 98% 7 85.1 14% 0.00 8.2% news.announce.newusers 12 41000 1860 96% 1776 2769.3 10% 0.12 7.9% comp.sys.mac 13 38000 1693 97% 484 721.3 12% 0.03 7.2% comp.unix.questions 14 36000 1622 98% 663 1217.2 17% 0.06 6.9% news.groups 15 36000 1622 97% 417 672.0 7% 0.03 6.9% comp.unix.wizards 16 36000 1606 97% 918 1560.6 6% 0.08 6.9% comp.lang.c 17 35000 1595 93% 1088 2086.8 6% 0.10 6.8% rec.arts.movies 18 35000 1593 85% 105 2705.6 0% 0.12 6.8% alt.sources 19 34000 1554 97% 34 1645.9 0% 0.09 6.6% comp.sources.games 20 33000 1506 97% 373 719.3 11% 0.04 6.4% news.admin 21 32000 1438 94% 356 841.3 18% 0.05 6.1% misc.jobs.misc 22 31000 1391 96% 318 655.0 6% 0.04 5.9% comp.arch 23 30000 1365 97% 790 1381.2 5% 0.08 5.8% comp.windows.x 24 30000 1360 95% 97 170.7 26% 0.01 5.8% comp.misc 25 30000 1341 76% 37 299.0 14% 0.01 5.7% news.announce.newgroups 26 30000 1336 83% 1791 3239.7 12% 0.17 5.7% soc.singles 27 29000 1326 86% 1126 1827.7 10% 0.10 5.7% rec.autos 28 29000 1311 98% 54 91.5 14% 0.01 5.6% news.misc 29 29000 1293 98% 23 527.7 0% 0.03 5.5% comp.sources.unix 30 28000 1255 87% 698 1129.6 11% 0.06 5.4% misc.consumers 31 28000 1252 97% 97 151.7 13% 0.01 5.3% comp.sources.d 32 27000 1219 86% 381 728.0 10% 0.04 5.2% rec.travel 33 27000 1217 97% 227 272.9 15% 0.02 5.2% comp.sources.wanted 34 26000 1192 96% 228 347.2 13% 0.02 5.1% sci.math 35 26000 1186 90% 978 2672.2 10% 0.17 5.1% soc.culture.china 36 26000 1171 96% 641 1339.6 3% 0.09 5.0% sci.space 37 26000 1159 97% 326 528.6 14% 0.04 4.9% comp.lang.c++ 38 26000 1156 94% 281 469.3 9% 0.03 4.9% comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d 39 26000 1152 55% 244 431.9 4% 0.02 4.9% alt.sex.bondage 40 25000 1140 95% 85 2447.2 0% 0.17 4.9% comp.binaries.mac