Xref: utzoo news.lists:876 news.groups:10576 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 PER-READER COST (JUN 89) Message-ID: <97@apostrophe.dec.com> Date: 1 Jul 89 13:06:28 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 PER-READER COST 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 7900 393 80% 1115 2860.3 4% 0.52 1.6% talk.religion.misc 2 8100 401 88% 121 2632.0 0% 0.51 1.6% comp.mail.maps 3 31000 1517 90% 3579 8919.6 3% 0.46 6.2% soc.culture.china 4 6400 319 78% 711 1701.8 7% 0.37 1.3% talk.politics.mideast 5 18000 880 80% 1757 4332.8 20% 0.35 3.6% talk.politics.misc 6 8700 431 85% 1009 1823.9 0% 0.32 1.8% rec.sport.basketball 7 2900 143 84% 292 621.5 0% 0.32 0.6% misc.handicap 8 2700 132 96% 4 481.2 0% 0.31 0.5% comp.org.fidonet 9 12000 598 96% 746 2066.1 2% 0.30 2.4% comp.os.vms 10 11000 524 85% 1341 2170.4 0% 0.30 2.1% rec.sport.baseball 11 3800 190 59% 495 1084.0 14% 0.30 0.8% talk.politics.guns 12 8000 394 87% 735 1497.9 0% 0.29 1.6% rec.motorcycles 13 11000 542 86% 1002 1948.6 4% 0.27 2.2% rec.arts.comics 14 6300 313 94% 19 1004.7 0% 0.27 1.3% comp.binaries.amiga 15 4200 209 67% 350 902.4 0% 0.26 0.8% alt.sca 16 11000 568 93% 566 1667.8 3% 0.25 2.3% rec.games.frp 17 10000 515 93% 54 1415.7 0% 0.24 2.1% comp.binaries.atari.st 18 8800 434 87% 732 1356.2 2% 0.24 1.8% rec.aviation 19 5600 279 80% 245 959.3 7% 0.24 1.1% talk.philosophy.misc 20 4600 228 95% 288 662.2 0% 0.24 0.9% rec.music.gaffa 21 5600 275 94% 79 778.9 23% 0.23 1.1% sci.med.aids 22 3100 154 78% 142 508.0 27% 0.23 0.6% soc.culture.turkish 23 8800 437 92% 772 1195.4 3% 0.22 1.8% rec.music.gdead 24 5000 249 80% 295 722.5 0% 0.21 1.0% talk.abortion 25 4500 224 94% 108 567.1 1% 0.21 0.9% comp.sys.atari.8bit 26 11000 529 84% 781 1490.6 0% 0.20 2.2% rec.arts.tv.soaps 27 15000 752 83% 994 1912.0 17% 0.19 3.1% soc.motss 28 4100 202 93% 163 480.9 7% 0.19 0.8% rec.games.pbm 29 4100 201 70% 57 616.1 24% 0.19 0.8% gnu.emacs.gnus 30 2400 120 82% 109 308.6 2% 0.19 0.5% soc.roots 31 27000 1334 83% 1788 3188.7 2% 0.18 5.4% soc.singles 32 23000 1116 95% 1413 2400.8 7% 0.18 4.5% comp.sys.amiga 33 22000 1109 93% 1147 2332.2 10% 0.18 4.5% rec.arts.sf-lovers 34 5800 285 84% 325 707.9 0% 0.18 1.2% rec.guns 35 40000 1984 98% 81 3829.6 1% 0.17 8.1% comp.sources.unix 36 30000 1476 95% 76 3008.1 0% 0.17 6.0% comp.binaries.ibm.pc 37 24000 1194 96% 83 2400.1 0% 0.17 4.9% comp.binaries.mac 38 12000 604 76% 1194 1508.5 12% 0.17 2.5% talk.bizarre 39 7600 378 90% 289 794.5 4% 0.17 1.5% soc.culture.jewish 40 11000 555 85% 692 1164.1 2% 0.16 2.3% rec.bicycles