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From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid)
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Subject: TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY (SEP 89)
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Date: 1 Oct 89 13:06:36 GMT
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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