Xref: utzoo news.lists:930 news.groups:11991 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!bbn!oliveb!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 (AUG 89) Message-ID: <173@apostrophe.dec.com> Date: 1 Sep 89 13:40:44 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 9000 424 88% 139 3354.2 0% 0.59 1.8% comp.mail.maps 2 6400 302 80% 887 2010.4 1% 0.46 1.3% talk.abortion 3 3600 170 84% 547 1002.8 0% 0.42 0.7% misc.handicap 4 4200 196 80% 400 1156.3 6% 0.40 0.8% talk.origins 5 6900 324 78% 817 1908.0 27% 0.39 1.4% talk.politics.mideast 6 7900 371 80% 777 2011.6 3% 0.37 1.6% talk.religion.misc 7 12000 569 85% 1468 2696.8 0% 0.34 2.4% rec.sport.baseball 8 13000 611 96% 852 2341.6 2% 0.31 2.6% comp.os.vms 9 7600 356 84% 748 1384.2 1% 0.28 1.5% rec.sport.football 10 11000 514 95% 1076 1660.4 0% 0.26 2.2% comp.sys.apple 11 4100 192 67% 354 890.1 0% 0.26 0.8% alt.sca 12 20000 952 80% 1455 3306.9 23% 0.24 4.1% talk.politics.misc 13 2800 134 80% 84 466.1 25% 0.24 0.6% soc.culture.turkish 14 28000 1334 90% 1521 3945.9 2% 0.23 5.7% soc.culture.china 15 23000 1092 95% 1605 3099.5 6% 0.23 4.7% comp.sys.amiga 16 11000 495 93% 594 1501.8 2% 0.23 2.1% rec.games.frp 17 12000 573 86% 832 1676.1 7% 0.22 2.5% rec.arts.comics 18 10000 473 93% 875 1305.4 4% 0.22 2.0% rec.music.gdead 19 21000 977 94% 1346 2612.1 11% 0.21 4.2% rec.music.misc 20 17000 810 83% 1126 2370.0 6% 0.21 3.5% soc.motss 21 12000 567 84% 928 1659.7 0% 0.21 2.4% rec.arts.tv.soaps 22 5500 260 94% 296 688.8 0% 0.21 1.1% rec.music.gaffa 23 23000 1074 93% 1121 2786.6 6% 0.20 4.6% rec.arts.sf-lovers 24 3600 170 91% 20 430.3 0% 0.20 0.7% comp.binaries.apple2 25 12000 543 93% 673 1341.5 5% 0.19 2.3% rec.ham-radio 26 7700 360 87% 555 946.8 1% 0.19 1.5% rec.motorcycles 27 7000 330 84% 296 879.7 5% 0.19 1.4% rec.arts.anime 28 1600 76 40% 292 418.9 0% 0.19 0.3% alt.cosuard 29 29000 1381 82% 2050 3565.5 4% 0.18 5.9% soc.singles 30 14000 665 82% 715 1676.9 20% 0.18 2.8% soc.men 31 4900 230 71% 398 665.7 1% 0.18 1.0% alt.aquaria 32 4900 230 52% 195 916.5 0% 0.18 1.0% misc.headlines.unitex 33 4300 200 65% 249 653.6 15% 0.18 0.9% talk.politics.guns 34 4000 186 60% 365 660.4 4% 0.18 0.8% soc.culture.nordic 35 13000 633 97% 609 1294.5 0% 0.17 2.7% comp.dcom.telecom 36 15000 716 85% 876 1584.4 2% 0.16 3.1% rec.bicycles 37 10000 490 93% 28 920.1 0% 0.16 2.1% comp.binaries.atari.st 38 7700 360 85% 453 795.0 0% 0.16 1.5% rec.sport.basketball 39 5300 251 93% 87 501.2 16% 0.16 1.1% rec.games.pbm 40 13000 613 87% 672 1265.0 1% 0.15 2.6% rec.aviation