Xref: utzoo news.lists:991 news.groups:13860 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 PER-READER COST (OCT 89) Message-ID: <248@apostrophe.dec.com> Date: 1 Nov 89 15:13:39 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 PER-READER COST 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 4600 208 77% 306 1811.0 0% 0.55 0.8% misc.headlines.unitex 2 5100 229 64% 1008 2256.8 13% 0.52 0.9% soc.culture.taiwan 3 11000 490 89% 158 3209.1 0% 0.48 2.0% comp.mail.maps 4 9100 407 82% 1120 2851.5 13% 0.47 1.7% talk.religion.misc 5 13000 593 89% 1568 3010.3 1% 0.37 2.4% rec.arts.comics 6 4600 205 88% 497 984.0 0% 0.34 0.8% misc.handicap 7 1200 55 56% 11 391.5 0% 0.34 0.2% bionet.sci-resources 8 12000 549 88% 1397 2492.3 1% 0.33 2.2% rec.sport.football 9 6700 300 95% 633 1262.1 0% 0.33 1.2% rec.music.gaffa 10 5200 231 72% 616 1325.4 1% 0.33 0.9% alt.sca 11 8300 374 82% 722 1766.6 3% 0.32 1.5% talk.abortion 12 8600 387 81% 699 1737.0 24% 0.30 1.6% talk.politics.mideast 13 6500 291 72% 547 1382.6 2% 0.28 1.2% soc.culture.hongkong 14 5400 240 70% 483 1179.3 5% 0.28 1.0% talk.politics.guns 15 25000 1135 88% 2258 4217.5 4% 0.27 4.6% rec.arts.startrek 16 13000 588 95% 49 1928.7 0% 0.26 2.4% comp.binaries.atari.st 17 12000 548 94% 1095 1724.8 1% 0.25 2.2% rec.music.gdead 18 12000 534 96% 1150 1713.4 1% 0.25 2.2% comp.sys.apple 19 9500 427 89% 793 1420.4 5% 0.24 1.7% rec.motorcycles 20 6900 309 95% 18 959.6 0% 0.24 1.3% comp.binaries.amiga 21 6700 298 95% 136 845.2 0% 0.22 1.2% sci.med.aids 22 25000 1133 96% 1819 2989.7 8% 0.21 4.6% comp.sys.amiga 23 13000 569 93% 665 1596.0 3% 0.21 2.3% rec.games.frp 24 6200 278 82% 118 867.4 6% 0.21 1.1% gnu.gcc.bug 25 6000 271 92% 27 751.0 0% 0.21 1.1% comp.binaries.apple2 26 24000 1087 91% 981 2845.1 13% 0.20 4.4% soc.culture.china 27 20000 908 83% 1060 2640.1 12% 0.20 3.7% talk.politics.misc 28 16000 695 96% 799 1799.6 2% 0.20 2.8% comp.os.vms 29 10000 455 73% 620 1525.2 8% 0.20 1.8% sci.skeptic 30 8200 366 96% 16 898.9 0% 0.19 1.5% comp.sources.amiga 31 4800 216 85% 168 581.3 0% 0.19 0.9% soc.religion.christian 32 15000 677 94% 797 1552.4 5% 0.18 2.7% rec.ham-radio 33 14000 638 88% 814 1540.2 1% 0.18 2.6% rec.arts.tv.soaps 34 6600 296 74% 459 896.2 21% 0.18 1.2% alt.aquaria 35 36000 1596 98% 80 3482.6 3% 0.17 6.5% comp.sources.unix 36 27000 1211 96% 92 2609.7 0% 0.17 4.9% comp.binaries.mac 37 15000 656 90% 807 1531.7 2% 0.17 2.7% rec.aviation 38 2100 92 56% 167 358.6 0% 0.17 0.4% alt.cosuard 39 22000 969 94% 1163 2050.7 10% 0.16 3.9% rec.music.misc 40 16000 704 97% 441 1442.2 12% 0.16 2.9% comp.os.minix