Xref: utzoo news.lists:932 news.groups:11993 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!bionet!ames!sun-barr!decwrl!reid From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups Subject: TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY (AUG 89) Message-ID: <172@apostrophe.dec.com> Date: 1 Sep 89 13:40:18 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 71000 3334 94% 51 113.3 0% 0.00 14.3% rec.humor.funny 2 58000 2737 94% 208 455.3 7% 0.01 11.7% misc.jobs.offered 3 52000 2435 98% 7 48.6 0% 0.00 10.4% news.announce.conferences 4 51000 2389 83% 686 1124.5 3% 0.03 10.2% rec.humor 5 50000 2366 86% 650 801.0 30% 0.02 10.1% misc.forsale 6 49000 2311 96% 1321 1997.5 11% 0.07 9.9% comp.sys.ibm.pc 7 49000 2285 66% 601 1260.0 11% 0.03 9.8% alt.sex 8 43000 2042 96% 568 1476.3 11% 0.06 8.7% comp.graphics 9 41000 1915 95% 217 204.1 33% 0.01 8.2% misc.wanted 10 40000 1872 98% 1 4.7 0% 0.00 8.0% news.announce.newusers 11 39000 1823 98% 57 1642.1 0% 0.07 7.8% comp.sources.misc 12 37000 1733 97% 1587 2406.2 7% 0.11 7.4% comp.sys.mac 13 37000 1718 93% 1332 2333.6 8% 0.11 7.4% rec.arts.movies 14 36000 1692 97% 586 823.7 15% 0.04 7.2% comp.unix.questions 15 35000 1655 98% 365 566.8 9% 0.03 7.1% comp.unix.wizards 16 35000 1646 98% 619 1220.4 11% 0.06 7.1% news.groups 17 34000 1610 97% 1007 1563.2 6% 0.08 6.9% comp.lang.c 18 33000 1557 97% 15 673.8 0% 0.04 6.7% comp.sources.games 19 31000 1449 98% 2 55.6 100% 0.00 6.2% comp.sources.unix 20 31000 1445 94% 407 758.8 2% 0.04 6.2% misc.jobs.misc 21 30000 1433 85% 56 474.0 13% 0.02 6.1% alt.sources 22 30000 1413 98% 177 338.4 19% 0.02 6.1% news.admin 23 29000 1381 82% 2050 3565.5 4% 0.18 5.9% soc.singles 24 29000 1361 96% 109 183.0 11% 0.01 5.8% comp.misc 25 29000 1359 97% 910 1586.8 4% 0.10 5.8% comp.windows.x 26 28000 1338 86% 1264 1945.8 9% 0.11 5.7% rec.autos 27 28000 1334 90% 1521 3945.9 2% 0.23 5.7% soc.culture.china 28 28000 1327 86% 700 1053.2 10% 0.06 5.7% misc.consumers 29 28000 1300 97% 352 696.9 12% 0.04 5.6% comp.arch 30 28000 1297 98% 21 35.4 30% 0.00 5.6% news.misc 31 27000 1285 97% 233 231.3 20% 0.02 5.5% comp.sources.wanted 32 27000 1258 98% 49 70.1 24% 0.00 5.4% comp.sources.d 33 26000 1216 96% 268 552.8 19% 0.04 5.2% sci.math 34 25000 1179 97% 244 539.3 7% 0.04 5.1% comp.lang.c++ 35 25000 1163 85% 337 643.4 11% 0.04 5.0% rec.travel 36 24000 1151 86% 826 1550.5 4% 0.10 4.9% rec.arts.startrek 37 24000 1138 94% 21 144.4 0% 0.01 4.9% rec.arts.movies.reviews 38 24000 1133 94% 278 440.8 5% 0.03 4.9% comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d 39 24000 1117 53% 32 152.6 13% 0.01 4.8% news.announce.newgroups 40 24000 1106 51% 268 545.8 2% 0.02 4.7% alt.sex.bondage