Xref: utzoo news.lists:988 news.groups:13857 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!decwrl!reid From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups Subject: TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY (OCT 89) Message-ID: <247@apostrophe.dec.com> Date: 1 Nov 89 15:13:30 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 75000 3380 95% 61 111.5 0% 0.00 13.7% rec.humor.funny 2 63000 2830 96% 217 198.5 30% 0.01 11.5% misc.wanted 3 63000 2816 95% 216 467.0 7% 0.01 11.4% misc.jobs.offered 4 62000 2794 68% 943 1435.2 9% 0.03 11.3% alt.sex 5 62000 2759 87% 1270 2187.2 5% 0.06 11.2% rec.humor 6 57000 2574 90% 682 799.2 28% 0.02 10.4% misc.forsale 7 56000 2516 97% 43 199.9 17% 0.01 10.2% news.announce.conferences 8 56000 2502 97% 1482 2305.1 9% 0.07 10.1% comp.sys.ibm.pc 9 47000 2125 98% 7 85.2 14% 0.00 8.6% news.announce.newusers 10 47000 2109 97% 1787 2706.9 9% 0.10 8.6% comp.sys.mac 11 46000 2081 97% 436 1067.5 9% 0.04 8.4% comp.graphics 12 43000 1920 98% 7 268.4 0% 0.01 7.8% comp.sources.misc 13 43000 1918 98% 493 805.7 9% 0.03 7.8% comp.unix.questions 14 39000 1734 98% 587 1036.4 5% 0.05 7.0% comp.unix.wizards 15 37000 1637 97% 880 1611.4 19% 0.08 6.6% news.groups 16 36000 1615 98% 981 1632.1 10% 0.08 6.5% comp.lang.c 17 36000 1596 98% 80 3482.6 3% 0.17 6.5% comp.sources.unix 18 35000 1562 93% 1202 1940.3 3% 0.09 6.3% rec.arts.movies 19 34000 1528 98% 197 449.5 34% 0.02 6.2% news.admin 20 34000 1509 85% 85 1816.9 3% 0.08 6.1% alt.sources 21 33000 1496 95% 268 599.3 4% 0.03 6.1% misc.jobs.misc 22 33000 1483 85% 23 117.8 50% 0.01 6.0% news.announce.newgroups 23 33000 1474 96% 508 1012.2 6% 0.05 6.0% comp.arch 24 33000 1456 97% 133 269.1 15% 0.01 5.9% comp.misc 25 32000 1444 97% 795 1205.7 6% 0.07 5.9% comp.windows.x 26 32000 1424 85% 1044 2012.2 8% 0.10 5.8% soc.singles 27 32000 1417 57% 331 749.0 4% 0.02 5.7% alt.sex.bondage 28 31000 1381 89% 685 1111.6 15% 0.06 5.6% misc.consumers 29 31000 1379 97% 7 346.4 0% 0.02 5.6% comp.sources.games 30 30000 1336 98% 33 58.2 10% 0.00 5.4% news.misc 31 30000 1326 97% 253 311.2 23% 0.02 5.4% comp.sources.wanted 32 29000 1306 98% 1 1.7 0% 0.00 5.3% news.announce.important 33 29000 1293 89% 403 690.5 10% 0.04 5.2% rec.travel 34 29000 1291 96% 34 1178.6 3% 0.07 5.2% comp.binaries.ibm.pc 35 28000 1250 98% 115 235.2 6% 0.01 5.1% comp.sources.d 36 27000 1216 95% 287 525.5 8% 0.03 4.9% comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d 37 27000 1211 97% 188 308.6 7% 0.02 4.9% comp.databases 38 27000 1211 96% 92 2609.7 0% 0.17 4.9% comp.binaries.mac 39 27000 1196 95% 94 142.6 20% 0.01 4.8% misc.misc 40 26000 1183 97% 26 88.5 0% 0.01 4.8% comp.newprod