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 PER-READER COST (APR 87) Message-ID: <9615@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: Fri, 1-May-87 05:29:37 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.9615 Posted: Fri May 1 05:29:37 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 2-May-87 15:18:39 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:124 news.groups:715 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) | | | | | +-- Participation ratio | | | | | | +-- Cost ratio: $US/month/reader | | | | | | | +-- Share: % of newsreaders | | | | | | | | who read this group. V V V V V V V V 1 3000 237 89% 558 1533.9 186 2.30 1.9% talk.religion.misc 2 7600 595 95% 75 2250.7 9 1.40 4.7% mod.mac.binaries 3 3200 247 88% 321 805.6 100 1.20 1.9% rec.ham-radio 4 2200 172 93% 350 561.6 159 1.20 1.4% rec.music.gdead 5 6900 544 96% 622 1694.2 90 1.10 4.3% comp.sys.atari.st 6 4600 361 90% 432 1141.1 94 1.10 2.8% talk.politics.misc 7 8900 694 96% 700 1996.9 78 1.00 5.4% comp.sys.amiga 8 3000 237 90% 262 632.9 87 0.97 1.9% mod.music.gaffa 9 5200 405 89% 517 1056.6 99 0.93 3.2% rec.arts.comics 10 8500 665 93% 881 1679.6 103 0.91 5.2% rec.arts.sf-lovers 11 6700 525 90% 647 1331.8 96 0.91 4.1% soc.women 12 3100 244 87% 321 618.0 103 0.91 1.9% rec.motorcycles 13 3600 284 94% 370 692.9 102 0.88 2.2% soc.culture.indian 14 3200 250 86% 354 557.7 110 0.80 2.0% rec.sport.basketball 15 860 67 93% 54 150.8 63 0.80 0.5% soc.culture.greek 16 11000 834 90% 987 1884.6 89 0.78 6.5% soc.singles 17 1500 119 83% 131 249.9 87 0.76 0.9% misc.handicap 18 6500 506 96% 460 1047.2 70 0.74 4.0% mod.computers.vax 19 6400 498 88% 505 874.4 79 0.63 3.9% rec.arts.startrek 20 6200 484 94% 492 839.6 79 0.62 3.8% rec.music.misc 21 2400 186 89% 120 323.8 50 0.62 1.5% talk.origins 22 7500 590 87% 492 880.1 65 0.54 4.6% rec.autos 23 3400 265 87% 244 363.7 71 0.49 2.1% rec.aviation 24 22000 1690 96% 47 2114.3 2 0.44 13.3% mod.sources 25 7200 567 89% 421 667.7 58 0.42 4.5% talk.bizarre 26 3300 258 87% 170 295.1 51 0.41 2.0% rec.sport.baseball 27 2800 221 77% 10 249.3 3 0.41 1.7% comp.binaries.atari.st 28 3900 309 90% 184 318.4 47 0.37 2.4% rec.arts.drwho 29 4200 327 87% 174 329.0 41 0.36 2.6% rec.bicycles 30 7500 586 95% 254 581.0 33 0.35 4.6% sci.space 31 3200 252 93% 91 241.3 28 0.35 2.0% rec.games.frp 32 2800 221 93% 58 211.2 20 0.35 1.7% rec.music.folk 33 1900 145 93% 68 145.3 36 0.35 1.1% rec.games.bridge 34 27000 2108 86% 142 2024.8 5 0.34 16.6% net.sources 35 4700 367 89% 137 348.1 29 0.34 2.9% soc.motss 36 5300 412 90% 164 374.1 30 0.32 3.2% misc.kids 37 2600 202 90% 51 175.9 19 0.31 1.6% talk.philosophy.misc 38 10000 814 90% 427 657.5 42 0.30 6.4% rec.arts.movies 39 2500 193 86% 127 161.3 50 0.30 1.5% rec.arts.tv.soaps 40 11000 843 96% 277 680.8 25 0.28 6.6% comp.arch