Xref: utzoo news.lists:875 news.groups:10575 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 TRAFFIC VOLUME (JUN 89) Message-ID: <99@apostrophe.dec.com> Date: 1 Jul 89 13:06:37 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 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) | | | | | +-- Crossposting percentage | | | | | | +-- Cost ratio: $US/month/reader | | | | | | | +-- Share: % of newsreaders | | | | | | | | who read this group. V V V V V V V V 1 31000 1517 90% 3579 8919.6 3% 0.46 6.2% soc.culture.china 2 18000 880 80% 1757 4332.8 20% 0.35 3.6% talk.politics.misc 3 40000 1984 98% 81 3829.6 1% 0.17 8.1% comp.sources.unix 4 27000 1334 83% 1788 3188.7 2% 0.18 5.4% soc.singles 5 30000 1476 95% 76 3008.1 0% 0.17 6.0% comp.binaries.ibm.pc 6 36000 1789 93% 1586 2908.0 7% 0.13 7.3% rec.arts.movies 7 7900 393 80% 1115 2860.3 4% 0.52 1.6% talk.religion.misc 8 8100 401 88% 121 2632.0 0% 0.51 1.6% comp.mail.maps 9 27000 1324 86% 1414 2505.0 6% 0.14 5.4% rec.arts.startrek 10 34000 1705 98% 57 2467.0 0% 0.13 6.9% comp.sources.misc 11 23000 1116 95% 1413 2400.8 7% 0.18 4.5% comp.sys.amiga 12 24000 1194 96% 83 2400.1 0% 0.17 4.9% comp.binaries.mac 13 45000 2239 66% 1397 2381.2 11% 0.06 9.1% alt.sex 14 22000 1109 93% 1147 2332.2 10% 0.18 4.5% rec.arts.sf-lovers 15 11000 524 85% 1341 2170.4 0% 0.30 2.1% rec.sport.baseball 16 12000 598 96% 746 2066.1 2% 0.30 2.4% comp.os.vms 17 11000 542 86% 1002 1948.6 4% 0.27 2.2% rec.arts.comics 18 15000 752 83% 994 1912.0 17% 0.19 3.1% soc.motss 19 8700 431 85% 1009 1823.9 0% 0.32 1.8% rec.sport.basketball 20 37000 1817 97% 1286 1764.5 9% 0.08 7.4% comp.sys.mac 21 6400 319 78% 711 1701.8 7% 0.37 1.3% talk.politics.mideast 22 48000 2386 95% 1152 1672.4 16% 0.06 9.7% comp.sys.ibm.pc 23 11000 568 93% 566 1667.8 3% 0.25 2.3% rec.games.frp 24 19000 926 95% 34 1608.7 0% 0.14 3.8% comp.sources.x 25 19000 944 94% 985 1604.0 18% 0.14 3.8% rec.music.misc 26 25000 1256 86% 971 1538.2 17% 0.09 5.1% rec.autos 27 12000 604 76% 1194 1508.5 12% 0.17 2.5% talk.bizarre 28 8000 394 87% 735 1497.9 0% 0.29 1.6% rec.motorcycles 29 11000 529 84% 781 1490.6 0% 0.20 2.2% rec.arts.tv.soaps 30 19000 945 83% 609 1446.9 24% 0.11 3.8% soc.women 31 10000 515 93% 54 1415.7 0% 0.24 2.1% comp.binaries.atari.st 32 44000 2167 84% 1096 1410.9 2% 0.05 8.8% rec.humor 33 8800 434 87% 732 1356.2 2% 0.24 1.8% rec.aviation 34 21000 1020 90% 744 1306.7 8% 0.10 4.1% soc.culture.indian 35 14000 690 83% 631 1215.6 21% 0.13 2.8% soc.men 36 8800 437 92% 772 1195.4 3% 0.22 1.8% rec.music.gdead 37 20000 982 96% 399 1174.7 7% 0.10 4.0% sci.space 38 11000 555 85% 692 1164.1 2% 0.16 2.3% rec.bicycles 39 33000 1631 97% 640 1153.7 24% 0.06 6.6% news.groups 40 16000 812 97% 181 1098.6 28% 0.12 3.3% comp.emacs