Xref: utzoo news.lists:933 news.groups:11994 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 TRAFFIC VOLUME (AUG 89) Message-ID: <175@apostrophe.dec.com> Date: 1 Sep 89 13:41:22 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 28000 1334 90% 1521 3945.9 2% 0.23 5.7% soc.culture.china 2 29000 1381 82% 2050 3565.5 4% 0.18 5.9% soc.singles 3 9000 424 88% 139 3354.2 0% 0.59 1.8% comp.mail.maps 4 20000 952 80% 1455 3306.9 23% 0.24 4.1% talk.politics.misc 5 23000 1092 95% 1605 3099.5 6% 0.23 4.7% comp.sys.amiga 6 23000 1074 93% 1121 2786.6 6% 0.20 4.6% rec.arts.sf-lovers 7 12000 569 85% 1468 2696.8 0% 0.34 2.4% rec.sport.baseball 8 21000 977 94% 1346 2612.1 11% 0.21 4.2% rec.music.misc 9 37000 1733 97% 1587 2406.2 7% 0.11 7.4% comp.sys.mac 10 17000 810 83% 1126 2370.0 6% 0.21 3.5% soc.motss 11 13000 611 96% 852 2341.6 2% 0.31 2.6% comp.os.vms 12 37000 1718 93% 1332 2333.6 8% 0.11 7.4% rec.arts.movies 13 7900 371 80% 777 2011.6 3% 0.37 1.6% talk.religion.misc 14 6400 302 80% 887 2010.4 1% 0.46 1.3% talk.abortion 15 49000 2311 96% 1321 1997.5 11% 0.07 9.9% comp.sys.ibm.pc 16 28000 1338 86% 1264 1945.8 9% 0.11 5.7% rec.autos 17 6900 324 78% 817 1908.0 27% 0.39 1.4% talk.politics.mideast 18 22000 1021 95% 825 1735.8 5% 0.14 4.4% comp.sys.atari.st 19 14000 665 82% 715 1676.9 20% 0.18 2.8% soc.men 20 12000 573 86% 832 1676.1 7% 0.22 2.5% rec.arts.comics 21 11000 514 95% 1076 1660.4 0% 0.26 2.2% comp.sys.apple 22 12000 567 84% 928 1659.7 0% 0.21 2.4% rec.arts.tv.soaps 23 39000 1823 98% 57 1642.1 0% 0.07 7.8% comp.sources.misc 24 29000 1359 97% 910 1586.8 4% 0.10 5.8% comp.windows.x 25 15000 716 85% 876 1584.4 2% 0.16 3.1% rec.bicycles 26 34000 1610 97% 1007 1563.2 6% 0.08 6.9% comp.lang.c 27 24000 1151 86% 826 1550.5 4% 0.10 4.9% rec.arts.startrek 28 22000 1021 96% 49 1512.1 0% 0.12 4.4% comp.binaries.mac 29 11000 495 93% 594 1501.8 2% 0.23 2.1% rec.games.frp 30 17000 799 90% 696 1496.3 6% 0.14 3.4% soc.culture.indian 31 23000 1063 96% 712 1489.0 5% 0.11 4.6% sci.space 32 43000 2042 96% 568 1476.3 11% 0.06 8.7% comp.graphics 33 23000 1079 94% 592 1474.4 7% 0.11 4.6% misc.misc 34 16000 735 77% 1207 1416.0 3% 0.12 3.1% talk.bizarre 35 7600 356 84% 748 1384.2 1% 0.28 1.5% rec.sport.football 36 12000 543 93% 673 1341.5 5% 0.19 2.3% rec.ham-radio 37 10000 473 93% 875 1305.4 4% 0.22 2.0% rec.music.gdead 38 13000 633 97% 609 1294.5 0% 0.17 2.7% comp.dcom.telecom 39 19000 902 96% 695 1286.4 5% 0.12 3.9% comp.sys.mac.programmer 40 13000 613 87% 672 1265.0 1% 0.15 2.6% rec.aviation