Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ames!amdcad!decwrl!reid From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups Subject: TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PER-READER COST () Message-ID: <12178@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: Tue, 1-Dec-87 20:53:04 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.12178 Posted: Tue Dec 1 20:53:04 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Dec-87 08:47:51 EST Sender: reid@decwrl.DEC.COM Organization: DEC Western Research Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif., USA Lines: 54 Approved: reid@decwrl.dec.com Xref: mnetor news.lists:322 news.groups:2101 TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PER-READER COST 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 11000 962 97% 1478 2654.5 134 150.00 5.1% comp.sys.amiga 2 3900 335 86% 365 969.3 93 140.00 1.8% talk.religion.misc 3 10000 894 88% 1278 2344.8 127 130.00 4.8% rec.arts.startrek 4 1500 131 29% 490 1049.6 326 130.00 0.7% soc.culture.china 5 10000 862 86% 1651 2173.9 165 120.00 4.6% talk.bizarre 6 6900 592 87% 528 1533.1 76 120.00 3.1% talk.politics.misc 7 4600 392 94% 474 929.1 103 120.00 2.1% soc.culture.jewish 8 10000 888 96% 57 1831.9 5 110.00 4.7% comp.binaries.mac 9 5300 454 88% 525 1023.7 99 110.00 2.4% rec.arts.comics 10 6100 517 94% 434 975.9 71 98.00 2.8% soc.culture.indian 11 6100 525 88% 557 1026.5 91 97.00 2.8% rec.aviation 12 4800 410 87% 481 810.3 100 96.00 2.2% rec.sport.football 13 4100 353 95% 18 627.9 4 94.00 1.9% comp.binaries.amiga 14 2900 244 94% 58 429.3 20 91.00 1.3% soc.culture.celtic 15 20000 1746 87% 1821 3187.5 91 90.00 9.3% soc.singles 16 3900 330 96% 21 537.7 5 85.00 1.8% comp.binaries.atari.st 17 3600 307 96% 111 473.1 30 82.00 1.6% comp.sys.atari.8bit 18 10000 853 87% 570 1437.6 57 81.00 4.5% soc.motss 19 2400 205 97% 5 310.8 2 81.00 1.1% comp.org.fidonet 20 5000 427 85% 221 679.7 44 75.00 2.3% talk.religion.newage 21 8100 690 95% 698 966.1 86 74.00 3.7% rec.music.misc 22 4900 416 96% 330 558.1 67 71.00 2.2% rec.ham-radio 23 4700 399 96% 18 523.3 3 70.00 2.1% comp.sources.atari.st 24 1600 139 35% 195 468.5 122 66.00 0.7% rec.arts.anime 25 4100 351 87% 285 461.7 69 64.00 1.9% rec.sport.baseball 26 6100 520 88% 394 667.0 64 62.00 2.8% rec.arts.drwho 27 3100 261 88% 190 339.7 61 62.00 1.4% rec.railroad 28 6300 535 96% 392 612.5 62 61.00 2.8% comp.sys.apple 29 6400 543 95% 404 620.8 63 60.00 2.9% rec.music.gdead 30 5800 493 95% 237 557.2 40 59.00 2.6% rec.music.synth 31 22000 1838 98% 1302 2011.5 59 58.00 9.8% comp.sys.mac 32 24000 2089 98% 60 2140.3 2 57.00 11.1% comp.sources.misc 33 4600 389 95% 217 418.4 47 56.00 2.1% rec.games.frp 34 1500 129 92% 5 141.3 3 56.00 0.7% soc.politics.arms-d 35 9300 794 97% 420 808.9 45 55.00 4.2% comp.sys.atari.st 36 6900 593 97% 325 602.1 47 55.00 3.2% comp.os.vms 37 2000 171 86% 71 198.9 35 55.00 0.9% talk.politics.theory 38 11000 978 88% 644 1036.5 58 54.00 5.2% rec.autos 39 2900 244 87% 108 279.0 37 54.00 1.3% talk.abortion 40 15000 1259 95% 784 1272.6 52 53.00 6.7% rec.arts.sf-lovers