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Subject: TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY TRAFFIC VOLUME ()
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TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY TRAFFIC VOLUME
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 20000  1746   87%  1821 3187.5    91  90.00    9.3%  soc.singles
  2 11000   962   97%  1478 2654.5   134 150.00    5.1%  comp.sys.amiga
  3 10000   894   88%  1278 2344.8   127 130.00    4.8%  rec.arts.startrek
  4 10000   862   86%  1651 2173.9   165 120.00    4.6%  talk.bizarre
  5 24000  2089   98%    60 2140.3     2  57.00   11.1%  comp.sources.misc
  6 22000  1838   98%  1302 2011.5    59  58.00    9.8%  comp.sys.mac
  7 10000   888   96%    57 1831.9     5 110.00    4.7%  comp.binaries.mac
  8 23000  1972   97%   798 1708.9    34  47.00   10.5%  comp.sys.ibm.pc
  9  6900   592   87%   528 1533.1    76 120.00    3.1%  talk.politics.misc
 10 10000   853   87%   570 1437.6    57  81.00    4.5%  soc.motss
 11 15000  1259   95%   784 1272.6    52  53.00    6.7%  rec.arts.sf-lovers
 12  1500   131   29%   490 1049.6   326 130.00    0.7%  soc.culture.china
 13 11000   978   88%   644 1036.5    58  54.00    5.2%  rec.autos
 14  6100   525   88%   557 1026.5    91  97.00    2.8%  rec.aviation
 15  5300   454   88%   525 1023.7    99 110.00    2.4%  rec.arts.comics
 16  6100   517   94%   434  975.9    71  98.00    2.8%  soc.culture.indian
 17  3900   335   86%   365  969.3    93 140.00    1.8%  talk.religion.misc
 18  8100   690   95%   698  966.1    86  74.00    3.7%  rec.music.misc
 19 22000  1869   89%   774  949.0    35  25.00    9.9%  rec.humor
 20  4600   392   94%   474  929.1   103 120.00    2.1%  soc.culture.jewish
 21 21000  1757   98%    21  922.6     1  28.00    9.3%  comp.sources.games
 22  4800   410   87%   481  810.3   100  96.00    2.2%  rec.sport.football
 23  9300   794   97%   420  808.9    45  55.00    4.2%  comp.sys.atari.st
 24 11000   962   88%   478  783.5    43  41.00    5.1%  rec.audio
 25  8500   729   89%   360  780.2    42  53.00    3.9%  misc.headlines
 26 30000  2565   99%    15  747.5     0  16.00   13.6%  comp.sources.unix
 27  8800   750   89%   345  724.1    39  48.00    4.0%  misc.legal
 28 12000   990   89%   358  688.1    29  33.00    5.3%  misc.invest
 29  5000   427   85%   221  679.7    44  75.00    2.3%  talk.religion.newage
 30  6100   520   88%   394  667.0    64  62.00    2.8%  rec.arts.drwho
 31 12000  1030   89%   431  646.0    35  31.00    5.5%  rec.arts.movies
 32 11000   943   99%   304  645.1    27  38.00    5.0%  comp.emacs
 33  4100   353   95%    18  627.9     4  94.00    1.9%  comp.binaries.amiga
 34  8200   703   83%   287  622.0    35  41.00    3.7%  soc.men
 35  6400   543   95%   404  620.8    63  60.00    2.9%  rec.music.gdead
 36  6300   535   96%   392  612.5    62  61.00    2.8%  comp.sys.apple
 37 11000   937   87%   245  609.2    22  31.00    5.0%  soc.women
 38  6900   593   97%   325  602.1    47  55.00    3.2%  comp.os.vms
 39 11000   923   97%   284  569.9    25  33.00    4.9%  sci.space
 40 20000  1702   98%   375  565.0    18  18.00    9.1%  comp.lang.c