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 PROPAGATION (APR 87) Message-ID: <9616@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: Fri, 1-May-87 05:32:00 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.9616 Posted: Fri May 1 05:32:00 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 2-May-87 15:24:08 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:125 news.groups:716 TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PROPAGATION 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 16000 1242 98% 382 624.4 23 0.18 9.8% comp.unix.wizards 2 15000 1171 98% 61 118.2 4 0.04 9.2% comp.sources.d 3 12000 954 98% 90 114.0 7 0.04 7.5% comp.sources.wanted 4 11000 863 98% 21 36.9 1 0.02 6.8% news.misc 5 11000 853 98% 70 154.2 6 0.06 6.7% news.groups 6 10000 791 98% 65 105.1 6 0.05 6.2% comp.mail.uucp 7 9200 723 98% 230 378.6 24 0.19 5.7% comp.emacs 8 9000 704 98% 81 153.2 9 0.08 5.5% comp.dcom.lans 9 8800 688 98% 34 75.3 3 0.04 5.4% news.admin 10 8100 637 98% 57 107.7 7 0.06 5.0% comp.databases 11 8100 633 98% 81 155.6 10 0.09 5.0% comp.dcom.modems 12 7400 580 98% 30 54.1 4 0.03 4.6% comp.org.usenix 13 7300 569 98% 52 71.4 7 0.04 4.5% comp.lang.c++ 14 7300 569 98% 1 2.4 0 0.00 4.5% comp.bugs.misc 15 6800 531 98% 91 257.3 13 0.17 4.2% news.software.b 16 6700 523 98% 27 26.0 4 0.02 4.1% news.config 17 5700 444 98% 48 206.2 8 0.17 3.5% comp.lang.prolog 18 19000 1467 97% 551 1013.3 29 0.24 11.5% comp.sys.ibm.pc 19 14000 1110 97% 301 492.9 21 0.16 8.7% comp.unix.questions 20 13000 1025 97% 204 324.2 15 0.11 8.0% comp.lang.c 21 13000 1019 97% 131 172.3 10 0.06 8.0% misc.wanted 22 13000 979 97% 567 738.4 43 0.26 7.7% comp.sys.mac 23 12000 975 97% 72 126.0 6 0.05 7.7% comp.graphics 24 12000 936 97% 24 347.2 2 0.13 7.3% comp.bugs.4bsd.ucb-fixes 25 10000 782 97% 111 157.0 11 0.07 6.1% comp.text 26 9200 722 97% 17 34.5 1 0.02 5.7% mod.computers.workstations 27 8900 700 97% 34 45.3 3 0.02 5.5% comp.sys.misc 28 8500 669 97% 120 218.9 14 0.12 5.3% sci.electronics 29 8200 645 97% 38 58.0 4 0.03 5.1% comp.sys.m68k 30 7800 607 97% 11 15.0 1 0.01 4.8% news.sysadmin 31 7500 586 97% 42 58.9 5 0.04 4.6% comp.mail.misc 32 6700 522 97% 1 2.3 0 0.00 4.1% comp.bugs.sys5 33 6500 507 97% 14 12.4 2 0.01 4.0% comp.terminals 34 6300 491 97% 15 32.0 2 0.02 3.9% mod.protocols 35 6200 482 97% 22 19.9 3 0.01 3.8% news.newsites 36 5900 461 97% 2 4.0 0 0.00 3.6% news.software.notes 37 5400 425 97% 40 46.4 7 0.04 3.3% comp.sys.att 38 5300 413 97% 11 19.8 2 0.02 3.2% comp.mail.headers 39 4000 314 97% 90 147.8 22 0.17 2.5% comp.lang.ada 40 2300 180 97% 2 8.0 1 0.02 1.4% comp.bugs.2bsd