Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-lcc!pyramid!decwrl!reid From: reid@decwrl.UUCP (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups Subject: TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY (APR 87) Message-ID: <9614@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: Fri, 1-May-87 05:26:49 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.9614 Posted: Fri May 1 05:26:49 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 2-May-87 15:17:59 EDT Sender: reid@decwrl.DEC.COM Organization: DEC Western Research Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif., USA Lines: 54 Approved: reid@decwrl.UUCP Xref: mnetor news.lists:123 news.groups:714 TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY 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) | | | | | +-- Participation ratio | | | | | | +-- Cost ratio: $US/month/reader | | | | | | | +-- Share: % of newsreaders | | | | | | | | who read this group. V V V V V V V V 1 27000 2108 86% 142 2024.8 5 0.34 16.6% net.sources 2 22000 1690 96% 47 2114.3 2 0.44 13.3% mod.sources 3 21000 1668 95% 4 3.9 0 0.00 13.1% mod.announce 4 21000 1653 96% 7 56.7 0 0.01 13.0% mod.announce.newusers 5 20000 1528 90% 168 250.6 8 0.06 12.0% misc.consumers.house 6 19000 1467 97% 551 1013.3 29 0.24 11.5% comp.sys.ibm.pc 7 18000 1436 95% 104 209.5 5 0.05 11.3% misc.jobs 8 18000 1389 89% 501 626.1 27 0.16 10.9% rec.humor 9 18000 1381 95% 15 79.7 0 0.02 10.8% mod.conferences 10 16000 1285 85% 21 90.3 1 0.03 10.1% net.sources.games 11 16000 1242 98% 382 624.4 23 0.18 9.8% comp.unix.wizards 12 15000 1185 96% 2 3.5 0 0.00 9.3% mod.newprod 13 15000 1171 98% 61 118.2 4 0.04 9.2% comp.sources.d 14 14000 1110 97% 301 492.9 21 0.16 8.7% comp.unix.questions 15 14000 1068 86% 45 213.9 3 0.07 8.4% net.sources.bugs 16 13000 1025 97% 204 324.2 15 0.11 8.0% comp.lang.c 17 13000 1019 97% 131 172.3 10 0.06 8.0% misc.wanted 18 13000 989 96% 62 104.5 4 0.04 7.8% comp.misc 19 13000 984 87% 247 398.2 19 0.14 7.7% comp.windows.x 20 13000 979 97% 567 738.4 43 0.26 7.7% comp.sys.mac 21 12000 975 97% 72 126.0 6 0.05 7.7% comp.graphics 22 12000 967 90% 95 111.9 7 0.04 7.6% misc.forsale 23 12000 954 98% 90 114.0 7 0.04 7.5% comp.sources.wanted 24 12000 936 97% 24 347.2 2 0.13 7.3% comp.bugs.4bsd.ucb-fixes 25 11000 895 96% 38 104.5 3 0.04 7.0% mod.os 26 11000 895 96% 5 241.6 0 0.10 7.0% mod.computers.ibm-pc 27 11000 891 91% 72 116.0 6 0.05 7.0% comp.os.minix 28 11000 880 95% 18 30.8 1 0.01 6.9% mod.compilers 29 11000 863 98% 21 36.9 1 0.02 6.8% news.misc 30 11000 853 98% 70 154.2 6 0.06 6.7% news.groups 31 11000 843 96% 277 680.8 25 0.28 6.6% comp.arch 32 11000 834 90% 987 1884.6 89 0.78 6.5% soc.singles 33 11000 832 96% 50 112.2 4 0.05 6.5% mod.telecom 34 11000 831 96% 70 218.5 6 0.09 6.5% mod.recipes 35 10000 821 96% 58 257.9 5 0.12 6.4% comp.ai 36 10000 814 90% 427 657.5 42 0.30 6.4% rec.arts.movies 37 10000 791 98% 65 105.1 6 0.05 6.2% comp.mail.uucp 38 10000 782 97% 111 157.0 11 0.07 6.1% comp.text 39 9400 736 95% 122 166.6 13 0.08 5.8% misc.misc 40 9300 732 96% 112 245.1 12 0.12 5.7% mod.ai