Xref: utzoo news.lists:874 news.groups:10574 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 AMOUNT OF CROSSPOSTING (JUN 89) Message-ID: <98@apostrophe.dec.com> Date: 1 Jul 89 13:06:33 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 AMOUNT OF CROSSPOSTING 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 21000 1022 97% 4 37.5 100% 0.00 4.2% comp.newprod 2 12000 577 97% 4 5.3 100% 0.00 2.3% comp.bugs.misc 3 10000 515 95% 1 1.0 100% 0.00 2.1% comp.windows.misc 4 2700 135 68% 1 1.1 100% 0.00 0.5% alt.california 5 1500 72 92% 2 31.5 100% 0.03 0.3% rec.mag 6 650 32 71% 4 5.0 100% 0.01 0.1% comp.sys.northstar 7 9500 471 97% 30 60.3 93% 0.01 1.9% comp.std.misc 8 12000 610 97% 20 45.2 74% 0.01 2.5% comp.bugs.sys5 9 3500 175 95% 3 11.0 67% 0.01 0.7% comp.std.internat 10 480 24 2% 16 240.7 67% 0.03 0.1% unix-pc.sources 11 7400 367 90% 5 23.3 60% 0.01 1.5% soc.culture.misc 12 4400 219 96% 18 32.0 59% 0.01 0.9% comp.bugs.2bsd 13 590 29 3% 202 321.0 59% 0.03 0.1% unix-pc.general 14 3500 171 67% 22 50.0 57% 0.02 0.7% alt.individualism 15 8200 407 74% 79 179.8 54% 0.03 1.7% alt.cyberpunk 16 9600 474 97% 15 21.5 50% 0.00 1.9% comp.protocols.misc 17 2700 132 85% 6 24.6 50% 0.01 0.5% rec.arts.wobegon 18 2400 119 84% 2 4.8 50% 0.00 0.5% rec.arts.int-fiction 19 2200 108 26% 2 2.8 50% 0.00 0.4% alt.sources.d 20 1900 92 73% 9 14.6 44% 0.01 0.4% comp.terminals.tty5620 21 8700 429 96% 15 28.0 43% 0.01 1.7% sci.bio 22 8400 417 87% 5 5.4 40% 0.00 1.7% rec.misc 23 14000 670 95% 132 243.9 39% 0.03 2.7% comp.sys.att 24 6000 296 90% 101 336.3 38% 0.09 1.2% soc.culture.african 25 8400 416 91% 67 259.0 37% 0.05 1.7% comp.lang.eiffel 26 7500 369 90% 100 260.9 37% 0.06 1.5% soc.culture.greek 27 9300 459 95% 50 144.1 36% 0.03 1.9% sci.psychology 28 15000 750 95% 24 68.6 35% 0.01 3.1% sci.misc 29 14000 686 97% 69 124.8 35% 0.02 2.8% comp.mail.misc 30 46000 2284 86% 459 519.6 33% 0.02 9.3% misc.forsale 31 35000 1741 95% 151 150.4 33% 0.01 7.1% misc.wanted 32 11000 566 95% 35 60.9 33% 0.01 2.3% comp.edu 33 4000 196 96% 3 9.6 33% 0.00 0.8% comp.org.decus 34 2500 124 60% 9 60.4 33% 0.03 0.5% alt.prose 35 29000 1445 96% 110 236.3 32% 0.01 5.9% comp.misc 36 7300 363 78% 26 42.3 32% 0.01 1.5% sci.chem 37 28000 1369 85% 169 898.6 31% 0.05 5.6% alt.sources 38 6400 319 88% 41 72.2 31% 0.02 1.3% soc.culture.arabic 39 4200 209 68% 17 24.9 31% 0.01 0.8% alt.emusic 40 8300 409 85% 24 35.6 30% 0.01 1.7% comp.periphs.printers