Xref: utzoo news.lists:989 news.groups:13858 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 AMOUNT OF CROSSPOSTING (OCT 89) Message-ID: <249@apostrophe.dec.com> Date: 1 Nov 89 15:13:47 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 AMOUNT OF CROSSPOSTING 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 11000 501 97% 3 2.5 100% 0.00 2.0% comp.std.misc 2 5400 244 97% 1 5.9 100% 0.00 1.0% news.software.notes 3 3300 149 83% 2 2.3 100% 0.00 0.6% comp.protocols.pcnet 4 2200 100 82% 1 1.6 100% 0.00 0.4% sci.bio.technology 5 690 31 8% 1 0.5 100% 0.00 0.1% u3b.test 6 980 44 15% 5 8.2 80% 0.00 0.2% unix-pc.bugs 7 600 27 9% 5 7.5 80% 0.00 0.1% u3b.tech 8 10000 457 89% 4 7.3 75% 0.00 1.9% rec.misc 9 9000 403 86% 6 18.7 67% 0.00 1.6% soc.misc 10 2800 125 21% 3 3.3 67% 0.00 0.5% biz.clarinet 11 2200 99 39% 3 4.7 67% 0.00 0.4% biz.comp.services 12 870 39 56% 3 4.0 67% 0.00 0.2% bionet.molbio.proteins 13 830 37 3% 3 2.8 67% 0.00 0.2% alt.sex.masterbation 14 20000 910 89% 505 1515.2 61% 0.12 3.7% misc.headlines 15 11000 484 97% 16 23.3 53% 0.00 2.0% comp.text.desktop 16 33000 1483 85% 23 117.8 50% 0.01 6.0% news.announce.newgroups 17 6500 290 97% 4 6.6 50% 0.00 1.2% comp.mail.headers 18 2500 110 2% 2 2.1 50% 0.00 0.4% alt.sex.carasso 19 11000 481 96% 66 130.1 48% 0.02 2.0% sci.bio 20 13000 563 88% 82 230.1 47% 0.03 2.3% comp.sw.components 21 6100 272 91% 18 41.3 47% 0.01 1.1% soc.culture.african 22 14000 649 97% 35 48.7 45% 0.01 2.6% comp.bugs.sys5 23 8900 397 83% 66 96.6 44% 0.02 1.6% comp.sys.mips 24 8500 382 96% 19 22.7 44% 0.00 1.5% comp.unix.microport 25 25000 1104 97% 22 210.3 43% 0.01 4.5% news.lists 26 13000 576 89% 37 69.6 40% 0.01 2.3% comp.realtime 27 6800 306 97% 28 73.9 37% 0.02 1.2% comp.lang.scheme 28 2700 119 16% 199 378.0 37% 0.04 0.5% unix-pc.general 29 18000 791 97% 86 138.7 36% 0.01 3.2% comp.lang.misc 30 5900 265 96% 11 68.5 36% 0.02 1.1% comp.ivideodisc 31 4700 210 93% 15 76.0 36% 0.03 0.9% rec.mag 32 16000 737 97% 18 25.2 35% 0.00 3.0% comp.bugs.4bsd 33 7000 313 89% 58 140.8 35% 0.03 1.3% soc.culture.arabic 34 34000 1528 98% 197 449.5 34% 0.02 6.2% news.admin 35 16000 725 97% 19 33.6 33% 0.00 2.9% comp.sys.misc 36 9200 412 72% 88 186.2 33% 0.03 1.7% sci.aeronautics 37 8300 371 93% 41 74.5 33% 0.02 1.5% sci.logic 38 7400 332 75% 12 15.2 33% 0.00 1.3% alt.config 39 1700 78 64% 3 4.8 33% 0.00 0.3% alt.prose.d 40 20000 883 86% 258 522.3 32% 0.04 3.6% soc.women