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Subject: TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY ()
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Date: Tue, 1-Dec-87 20:52:57 EST
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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)
       |     |     |      |     |      +-- Participation ratio
       |     |     |      |     |      |    +-- Cost ratio: $US/month/reader
       |     |     |      |     |      |    |       +-- Share: % of newsreaders
       |     |     |      |     |      |    |       |   who read this group.
       V     V     V      V     V      V    V       V
  1 32000  2727   97%    24  116.3     0   2.30   14.5%  news.announce.conferences
  2 30000  2565   99%    15  747.5     0  16.00   13.6%  comp.sources.unix
  3 27000  2268   83%    57  129.4     2   2.60   12.1%  rec.humor.funny
  4 26000  2263   89%   267  457.7    10  10.00   12.0%  misc.consumers.house
  5 25000  2115   94%    84  168.8     3   4.10   11.3%  misc.jobs.offered
  6 24000  2089   98%    60 2140.3     2  57.00   11.1%  comp.sources.misc
  7 23000  1972   97%   798 1708.9    34  47.00   10.5%  comp.sys.ibm.pc
  8 23000  1962   99%   264  378.9    11  11.00   10.4%  comp.unix.wizards
  9 22000  1869   89%   774  949.0    35  25.00    9.9%  rec.humor
 10 22000  1838   98%  1302 2011.5    59  58.00    9.8%  comp.sys.mac
 11 21000  1783   99%   120  162.0     5   4.90    9.5%  comp.sources.d
 12 21000  1757   98%    21  922.6     1  28.00    9.3%  comp.sources.games
 13 20000  1751   99%   172  311.3     8  10.00    9.3%  news.groups
 14 20000  1746   87%  1821 3187.5    91  90.00    9.3%  soc.singles
 15 20000  1702   98%   375  565.0    18  18.00    9.1%  comp.lang.c
 16 20000  1690   99%   152  139.1     7   4.50    9.0%  comp.sources.wanted
 17 19000  1601   98%    15   21.3     0   0.71    8.5%  comp.newprod
 18 19000  1593   98%    77   76.2     4   2.60    8.5%  misc.wanted
 19 18000  1576   98%    95  171.5     5   6.10    8.4%  comp.sources.bugs
 20 18000  1566   97%   344  455.9    19  16.00    8.3%  comp.unix.questions
 21 18000  1550   89%   158  177.0     8   5.70    8.2%  misc.forsale
 22 17000  1425   97%   100  143.8     5   5.30    7.6%  comp.misc
 23 16000  1346   97%   194  350.1    12  14.00    7.2%  comp.arch
 24 15000  1291   98%   140  268.5     9  11.00    6.9%  sci.med
 25 15000  1286   99%    40  141.7     2   6.10    6.8%  news.misc
 26 15000  1282   97%   128  227.3     8   9.50    6.8%  comp.graphics
 27 15000  1259   97%    11   17.4     0   0.73    6.7%  comp.unix
 28 15000  1259   95%   784 1272.6    52  53.00    6.7%  rec.arts.sf-lovers
 29 14000  1218   99%    25   41.3     1   1.90    6.5%  comp.mail.uucp
 30 14000  1210   93%   118  354.6     8  15.00    6.4%  comp.ai
 31 14000  1196   99%   108  228.9     7  10.00    6.4%  news.admin
 32 14000  1175   94%    62  131.5     4   5.70    6.3%  misc.jobs.misc
 33 13000  1133   97%   125  170.1     9   8.20    6.0%  misc.misc
 34 13000  1129   98%     5   15.8     0   0.77    6.0%  comp.bugs.4bsd.ucb-fixes
 35 13000  1125   87%    41   49.9     3   2.20    6.0%  rec.nude
 36 13000  1081   99%    74  100.7     5   5.00    5.8%  comp.mail.misc
 37 12000  1030   89%   431  646.0    35  31.00    5.5%  rec.arts.movies
 38 12000   990   89%   358  688.1    29  33.00    5.3%  misc.invest
 39 11000   978   88%   644 1036.5    58  54.00    5.2%  rec.autos
 40 11000   971   88%    27  104.0     2   5.40    5.2%  rec.arts.movies.reviews