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 TRAFFIC VOLUME () Message-ID: <12180@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: Tue, 1-Dec-87 20:53:19 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.12180 Posted: Tue Dec 1 20:53:19 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Dec-87 08:48:44 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:324 news.groups:2103 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