Xref: utzoo news.lists:1021 news.groups:15255 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 PER-READER COST (NOV 89) Message-ID: <301@apostrophe.dec.com> Date: 1 Dec 89 15:02:12 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 11000 500 84% 1258 3480.9 1% 0.50 1.8% talk.religion.misc 2 12000 529 89% 156 3267.2 0% 0.46 1.9% comp.mail.maps 3 16000 701 90% 2044 4143.0 1% 0.44 2.5% rec.arts.comics 4 9600 418 85% 788 2446.1 0% 0.40 1.5% talk.abortion 5 9300 405 93% 68 2024.4 0% 0.38 1.5% comp.binaries.apple2 6 18000 772 90% 1755 3444.5 1% 0.32 2.8% rec.sport.football 7 4400 193 90% 398 821.1 0% 0.31 0.7% misc.handicap 8 21000 899 96% 1062 3450.9 3% 0.30 3.2% comp.os.vms 9 18000 774 94% 942 2636.4 2% 0.26 2.8% rec.games.frp 10 15000 666 96% 35 2062.9 0% 0.25 2.4% comp.sources.amiga 11 9500 416 83% 642 1527.2 31% 0.25 1.5% talk.politics.mideast 12 23000 1008 85% 1456 3398.8 19% 0.24 3.6% talk.politics.misc 13 15000 674 96% 1360 1911.8 1% 0.23 2.4% comp.sys.apple 14 13000 554 90% 902 1737.0 0% 0.23 2.0% rec.sport.basketball 15 3900 172 45% 417 1042.2 1% 0.23 0.6% rec.org.sca 16 5700 248 85% 305 783.3 1% 0.22 0.9% talk.origins 17 16000 712 90% 1173 1950.3 0% 0.21 2.6% rec.arts.tv.soaps 18 6700 293 71% 493 1042.3 15% 0.21 1.1% soc.culture.taiwan 19 6100 264 75% 355 929.9 34% 0.21 1.0% talk.politics.guns 20 30000 1303 91% 1308 3383.6 8% 0.19 4.7% soc.culture.china 21 28000 1234 94% 1654 2974.3 14% 0.19 4.5% rec.music.misc 22 16000 684 92% 953 1784.0 1% 0.19 2.5% rec.aviation 23 30000 1305 97% 1840 2947.7 5% 0.18 4.7% comp.sys.amiga 24 19000 848 97% 346 1883.2 7% 0.18 3.1% comp.os.minix 25 13000 569 95% 22 1291.4 0% 0.18 2.1% comp.binaries.amiga 26 11000 475 90% 663 1144.9 0% 0.18 1.7% rec.motorcycles 27 30000 1301 90% 1811 3056.3 1% 0.17 4.7% rec.arts.startrek 28 27000 1174 91% 1346 2609.1 1% 0.17 4.2% soc.culture.indian 29 13000 563 97% 66 1202.0 0% 0.17 2.0% comp.windows.news 30 8900 389 89% 433 883.8 4% 0.17 1.4% rec.arts.anime 31 18000 790 94% 901 1669.6 5% 0.16 2.9% rec.ham-radio 32 9000 392 77% 432 1015.5 3% 0.16 1.4% soc.culture.hongkong 33 8800 383 95% 369 802.4 0% 0.16 1.4% rec.music.gaffa 34 8700 380 84% 369 873.4 10% 0.16 1.4% talk.religion.newage 35 15000 659 94% 817 1269.0 9% 0.15 2.4% rec.music.gdead 36 8300 361 94% 76 711.2 6% 0.15 1.3% rec.games.pbm 37 6100 268 84% 161 575.7 13% 0.15 1.0% talk.politics.theory 38 5500 241 87% 184 505.5 0% 0.15 0.9% soc.religion.christian 39 10000 445 74% 203 993.9 32% 0.14 1.6% soc.rights.human 40 8900 387 94% 63 711.2 3% 0.14 1.4% sci.med.aids Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com