Xref: utzoo news.lists:1020 news.groups:15254 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!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 (NOV 89) Message-ID: <303@apostrophe.dec.com> Date: 1 Dec 89 15:02:21 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 16000 701 90% 2044 4143.0 1% 0.44 2.5% rec.arts.comics 2 11000 500 84% 1258 3480.9 1% 0.50 1.8% talk.religion.misc 3 21000 899 96% 1062 3450.9 3% 0.30 3.2% comp.os.vms 4 18000 772 90% 1755 3444.5 1% 0.32 2.8% rec.sport.football 5 23000 1008 85% 1456 3398.8 19% 0.24 3.6% talk.politics.misc 6 30000 1303 91% 1308 3383.6 8% 0.19 4.7% soc.culture.china 7 12000 529 89% 156 3267.2 0% 0.46 1.9% comp.mail.maps 8 30000 1301 90% 1811 3056.3 1% 0.17 4.7% rec.arts.startrek 9 28000 1234 94% 1654 2974.3 14% 0.19 4.5% rec.music.misc 10 30000 1305 97% 1840 2947.7 5% 0.18 4.7% comp.sys.amiga 11 18000 774 94% 942 2636.4 2% 0.26 2.8% rec.games.frp 12 27000 1174 91% 1346 2609.1 1% 0.17 4.2% soc.culture.indian 13 75000 3289 71% 1182 2465.9 15% 0.04 11.9% alt.sex 14 9600 418 85% 788 2446.1 0% 0.40 1.5% talk.abortion 15 60000 2600 97% 1702 2406.2 9% 0.07 9.4% comp.sys.mac 16 42000 1815 97% 1267 2344.3 13% 0.10 6.6% news.groups 17 52000 2286 98% 56 2333.3 0% 0.08 8.3% comp.sources.misc 18 29000 1273 90% 1335 2311.6 10% 0.13 4.6% rec.autos 19 70000 3042 89% 1167 2302.8 3% 0.05 11.0% rec.humor 20 32000 1390 96% 63 2300.2 0% 0.13 5.0% comp.binaries.mac 21 36000 1578 96% 51 2230.4 0% 0.11 5.7% comp.binaries.ibm.pc 22 68000 2953 97% 1477 2176.6 9% 0.06 10.7% comp.sys.ibm.pc 23 39000 1692 93% 1023 2104.8 3% 0.09 6.1% rec.arts.movies 24 15000 666 96% 35 2062.9 0% 0.25 2.4% comp.sources.amiga 25 29000 1276 96% 1196 2051.1 1% 0.13 4.6% comp.sys.atari.st 26 9300 405 93% 68 2024.4 0% 0.38 1.5% comp.binaries.apple2 27 16000 712 90% 1173 1950.3 0% 0.21 2.6% rec.arts.tv.soaps 28 15000 674 96% 1360 1911.8 1% 0.23 2.4% comp.sys.apple 29 19000 848 97% 346 1883.2 7% 0.18 3.1% comp.os.minix 30 16000 684 92% 953 1784.0 1% 0.19 2.5% rec.aviation 31 13000 554 90% 902 1737.0 0% 0.23 2.0% rec.sport.basketball 32 36000 1561 87% 1013 1706.1 5% 0.08 5.6% soc.singles 33 18000 790 94% 901 1669.6 5% 0.16 2.9% rec.ham-radio 34 22000 957 88% 828 1563.6 7% 0.12 3.5% soc.motss 35 23000 1000 71% 917 1545.5 17% 0.09 3.6% alt.flame 36 9500 416 83% 642 1527.2 31% 0.25 1.5% talk.politics.mideast 37 25000 1088 90% 985 1512.4 9% 0.10 3.9% rec.arts.tv 38 29000 1251 94% 994 1492.5 6% 0.09 4.5% rec.arts.sf-lovers 39 22000 975 82% 1168 1465.5 6% 0.10 3.5% talk.bizarre 40 29000 1281 96% 635 1373.2 13% 0.09 4.6% sci.space Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com