Xref: utzoo news.lists:990 news.groups:13859 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!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 TRAFFIC VOLUME (OCT 89) Message-ID: <250@apostrophe.dec.com> Date: 1 Nov 89 15:13:56 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 25000 1135 88% 2258 4217.5 4% 0.27 4.6% rec.arts.startrek 2 36000 1596 98% 80 3482.6 3% 0.17 6.5% comp.sources.unix 3 11000 490 89% 158 3209.1 0% 0.48 2.0% comp.mail.maps 4 13000 593 89% 1568 3010.3 1% 0.37 2.4% rec.arts.comics 5 25000 1133 96% 1819 2989.7 8% 0.21 4.6% comp.sys.amiga 6 9100 407 82% 1120 2851.5 13% 0.47 1.7% talk.religion.misc 7 24000 1087 91% 981 2845.1 13% 0.20 4.4% soc.culture.china 8 47000 2109 97% 1787 2706.9 9% 0.10 8.6% comp.sys.mac 9 20000 908 83% 1060 2640.1 12% 0.20 3.7% talk.politics.misc 10 27000 1211 96% 92 2609.7 0% 0.17 4.9% comp.binaries.mac 11 12000 549 88% 1397 2492.3 1% 0.33 2.2% rec.sport.football 12 56000 2502 97% 1482 2305.1 9% 0.07 10.1% comp.sys.ibm.pc 13 5100 229 64% 1008 2256.8 13% 0.52 0.9% soc.culture.taiwan 14 62000 2759 87% 1270 2187.2 5% 0.06 11.2% rec.humor 15 22000 969 94% 1163 2050.7 10% 0.16 3.9% rec.music.misc 16 32000 1424 85% 1044 2012.2 8% 0.10 5.8% soc.singles 17 35000 1562 93% 1202 1940.3 3% 0.09 6.3% rec.arts.movies 18 13000 588 95% 49 1928.7 0% 0.26 2.4% comp.binaries.atari.st 19 18000 810 80% 1535 1909.7 4% 0.15 3.3% talk.bizarre 20 34000 1509 85% 85 1816.9 3% 0.08 6.1% alt.sources 21 4600 208 77% 306 1811.0 0% 0.55 0.8% misc.headlines.unitex 22 16000 695 96% 799 1799.6 2% 0.20 2.8% comp.os.vms 23 8300 374 82% 722 1766.6 3% 0.32 1.5% talk.abortion 24 8600 387 81% 699 1737.0 24% 0.30 1.6% talk.politics.mideast 25 12000 548 94% 1095 1724.8 1% 0.25 2.2% rec.music.gdead 26 26000 1161 89% 1133 1723.9 8% 0.11 4.7% rec.autos 27 12000 534 96% 1150 1713.4 1% 0.25 2.2% comp.sys.apple 28 24000 1064 94% 1063 1695.3 13% 0.12 4.3% rec.arts.sf-lovers 29 24000 1058 96% 1012 1655.2 1% 0.12 4.3% comp.sys.atari.st 30 36000 1615 98% 981 1632.1 10% 0.08 6.5% comp.lang.c 31 37000 1637 97% 880 1611.4 19% 0.08 6.6% news.groups 32 17000 765 85% 813 1603.7 21% 0.15 3.1% soc.men 33 13000 569 93% 665 1596.0 3% 0.21 2.3% rec.games.frp 34 20000 876 91% 827 1592.5 2% 0.13 3.6% soc.culture.indian 35 25000 1129 96% 738 1574.5 12% 0.11 4.6% sci.space 36 15000 677 94% 797 1552.4 5% 0.18 2.7% rec.ham-radio 37 14000 638 88% 814 1540.2 1% 0.18 2.6% rec.arts.tv.soaps 38 15000 656 90% 807 1531.7 2% 0.17 2.7% rec.aviation 39 10000 455 73% 620 1525.2 8% 0.20 1.8% sci.skeptic 40 20000 910 89% 505 1515.2 61% 0.12 3.7% misc.headlines