Xref: utzoo news.lists:873 news.groups:10573 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!sun-barr!decwrl!reid From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups Subject: TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY (JUN 89) Message-ID: <96@apostrophe.dec.com> Date: 1 Jul 89 13:06:21 GMT Sender: reid@decwrl.dec.com Organization: DEC Western Research Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif., USA Lines: 54 Approved: reid@decwrl.dec.com 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) | | | | | +-- Crossposting percentage | | | | | | +-- Cost ratio: $US/month/reader | | | | | | | +-- Share: % of newsreaders | | | | | | | | who read this group. V V V V V V V V 1 66000 3251 94% 52 116.5 0% 0.00 13.2% rec.humor.funny 2 57000 2822 98% 25 170.9 0% 0.01 11.5% news.announce.conferences 3 53000 2607 93% 261 543.0 14% 0.02 10.6% misc.jobs.offered 4 48000 2386 95% 1152 1672.4 16% 0.06 9.7% comp.sys.ibm.pc 5 46000 2284 86% 459 519.6 33% 0.02 9.3% misc.forsale 6 45000 2239 66% 1397 2381.2 11% 0.06 9.1% alt.sex 7 44000 2167 84% 1096 1410.9 2% 0.05 8.8% rec.humor 8 40000 1984 98% 81 3829.6 1% 0.17 8.1% comp.sources.unix 9 40000 1982 96% 301 711.0 14% 0.03 8.1% comp.graphics 10 40000 1972 98% 7 81.7 14% 0.00 8.0% news.announce.newusers 11 37000 1817 97% 1286 1764.5 9% 0.08 7.4% comp.sys.mac 12 36000 1789 93% 1586 2908.0 7% 0.13 7.3% rec.arts.movies 13 35000 1741 95% 151 150.4 33% 0.01 7.1% misc.wanted 14 34000 1705 98% 57 2467.0 0% 0.13 6.9% comp.sources.misc 15 33000 1631 97% 640 1153.7 24% 0.06 6.6% news.groups 16 33000 1630 98% 451 926.9 10% 0.05 6.6% comp.unix.wizards 17 33000 1609 96% 552 919.9 9% 0.05 6.5% comp.lang.c 18 32000 1576 96% 544 800.1 11% 0.04 6.4% comp.unix.questions 19 31000 1517 90% 3579 8919.6 3% 0.46 6.2% soc.culture.china 20 30000 1489 98% 157 292.1 20% 0.02 6.1% news.misc 21 30000 1476 95% 76 3008.1 0% 0.17 6.0% comp.binaries.ibm.pc 22 29000 1445 96% 110 236.3 32% 0.01 5.9% comp.misc 23 28000 1378 94% 196 307.5 7% 0.02 5.6% misc.jobs.misc 24 28000 1369 85% 169 898.6 31% 0.05 5.6% alt.sources 25 27000 1355 97% 407 749.9 13% 0.05 5.5% comp.arch 26 27000 1335 97% 207 447.8 15% 0.03 5.4% news.admin 27 27000 1334 83% 1788 3188.7 2% 0.18 5.4% soc.singles 28 27000 1333 98% 78 231.9 15% 0.02 5.4% comp.sources.d 29 27000 1324 86% 1414 2505.0 6% 0.14 5.4% rec.arts.startrek 30 27000 1322 96% 280 442.0 17% 0.03 5.4% sci.physics 31 25000 1260 97% 726 1071.9 5% 0.07 5.1% comp.windows.x 32 25000 1256 86% 971 1538.2 17% 0.09 5.1% rec.autos 33 24000 1204 97% 231 224.3 21% 0.02 4.9% comp.sources.wanted 34 24000 1194 96% 83 2400.1 0% 0.17 4.9% comp.binaries.mac 35 24000 1170 86% 540 868.6 13% 0.06 4.8% misc.consumers 36 23000 1163 95% 369 656.8 16% 0.05 4.7% sci.electronics 37 23000 1124 97% 265 420.6 18% 0.03 4.6% sci.math 38 23000 1116 95% 1413 2400.8 7% 0.18 4.5% comp.sys.amiga 39 22000 1109 93% 1147 2332.2 10% 0.18 4.5% rec.arts.sf-lovers 40 22000 1108 94% 362 748.4 14% 0.06 4.5% misc.misc