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 POPULARITY () Message-ID: <12177@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: Tue, 1-Dec-87 20:52:57 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.12177 Posted: Tue Dec 1 20:52:57 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Dec-87 08:47:24 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:321 news.groups:2100 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