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 PROPAGATION () Message-ID: <12179@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: Tue, 1-Dec-87 20:53:12 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.12179 Posted: Tue Dec 1 20:53:12 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Dec-87 08:48:18 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:323 news.groups:2102 TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PROPAGATION 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 30000 2565 99% 15 747.5 0 16.00 13.6% comp.sources.unix 2 23000 1962 99% 264 378.9 11 11.00 10.4% comp.unix.wizards 3 21000 1783 99% 120 162.0 5 4.90 9.5% comp.sources.d 4 20000 1751 99% 172 311.3 8 10.00 9.3% news.groups 5 20000 1690 99% 152 139.1 7 4.50 9.0% comp.sources.wanted 6 15000 1286 99% 40 141.7 2 6.10 6.8% news.misc 7 14000 1218 99% 25 41.3 1 1.90 6.5% comp.mail.uucp 8 14000 1196 99% 108 228.9 7 10.00 6.4% news.admin 9 13000 1081 99% 74 100.7 5 5.00 5.8% comp.mail.misc 10 11000 949 99% 57 103.0 5 6.00 5.0% comp.dcom.lans 11 11000 943 99% 304 645.1 27 38.00 5.0% comp.emacs 12 11000 912 99% 67 90.3 6 5.20 4.9% comp.text 13 10000 868 99% 108 224.7 10 14.00 4.6% comp.dcom.modems 14 9700 832 99% 17 44.7 1 3.00 4.4% news.sysadmin 15 9600 823 99% 38 44.5 4 3.00 4.4% news.config 16 8200 698 99% 107 239.1 13 19.00 3.7% comp.unix.xenix 17 7400 633 99% 80 136.9 10 12.00 3.4% comp.cog-eng 18 24000 2089 98% 60 2140.3 2 57.00 11.1% comp.sources.misc 19 22000 1838 98% 1302 2011.5 59 58.00 9.8% comp.sys.mac 20 21000 1757 98% 21 922.6 1 28.00 9.3% comp.sources.games 21 20000 1702 98% 375 565.0 18 18.00 9.1% comp.lang.c 22 19000 1601 98% 15 21.3 0 0.71 8.5% comp.newprod 23 19000 1593 98% 77 76.2 4 2.60 8.5% misc.wanted 24 18000 1576 98% 95 171.5 5 6.10 8.4% comp.sources.bugs 25 15000 1291 98% 140 268.5 9 11.00 6.9% sci.med 26 13000 1129 98% 5 15.8 0 0.77 6.0% comp.bugs.4bsd.ucb-fixes 27 11000 902 98% 80 88.9 7 5.10 4.8% comp.os.minix 28 10000 885 98% 15 122.5 1 7.80 4.7% news.lists 29 10000 879 98% 57 63.2 5 4.00 4.7% comp.databases 30 9600 819 98% 341 532.6 35 35.00 4.4% comp.protocols.tcp-ip 31 9500 813 98% 51 119.8 5 8.00 4.3% comp.lang.c++ 32 9100 776 98% 115 186.1 12 13.00 4.1% sci.math 33 8900 762 98% 52 144.4 5 10.00 4.1% news.software.b 34 8900 761 98% 121 213.0 13 15.00 4.0% sci.astro 35 8600 731 98% 11 22.3 1 1.70 3.9% comp.org.usenix 36 8200 700 98% 14 23.3 1 1.80 3.7% comp.bugs.sys5 37 8000 681 98% 17 27.8 2 2.20 3.6% comp.protocols.misc 38 7200 616 98% 37 163.0 5 14.00 3.3% comp.lang.prolog 39 7000 601 98% 25 26.7 3 2.40 3.2% comp.windows.news 40 6700 571 98% 17 26.2 2 2.50 3.0% sci.crypt