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 TRAFFIC VOLUME (APR 87) Message-ID: <9617@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: Fri, 1-May-87 05:34:22 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.9617 Posted: Fri May 1 05:34:22 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 2-May-87 15:26:11 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:126 news.groups:717 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) | | | | | +-- Participation ratio | | | | | | +-- Cost ratio: $US/month/reader | | | | | | | +-- Share: % of newsreaders | | | | | | | | who read this group. V V V V V V V V 1 7600 595 95% 75 2250.7 9 1.40 4.7% mod.mac.binaries 2 22000 1690 96% 47 2114.3 2 0.44 13.3% mod.sources 3 27000 2108 86% 142 2024.8 5 0.34 16.6% net.sources 4 8900 694 96% 700 1996.9 78 1.00 5.4% comp.sys.amiga 5 11000 834 90% 987 1884.6 89 0.78 6.5% soc.singles 6 6900 544 96% 622 1694.2 90 1.10 4.3% comp.sys.atari.st 7 8500 665 93% 881 1679.6 103 0.91 5.2% rec.arts.sf-lovers 8 3000 237 89% 558 1533.9 186 2.30 1.9% talk.religion.misc 9 6700 525 90% 647 1331.8 96 0.91 4.1% soc.women 10 4600 361 90% 432 1141.1 94 1.10 2.8% talk.politics.misc 11 5200 405 89% 517 1056.6 99 0.93 3.2% rec.arts.comics 12 6500 506 96% 460 1047.2 70 0.74 4.0% mod.computers.vax 13 19000 1467 97% 551 1013.3 29 0.24 11.5% comp.sys.ibm.pc 14 7500 590 87% 492 880.1 65 0.54 4.6% rec.autos 15 6400 498 88% 505 874.4 79 0.63 3.9% rec.arts.startrek 16 6200 484 94% 492 839.6 79 0.62 3.8% rec.music.misc 17 3200 247 88% 321 805.6 100 1.20 1.9% rec.ham-radio 18 13000 979 97% 567 738.4 43 0.26 7.7% comp.sys.mac 19 3600 284 94% 370 692.9 102 0.88 2.2% soc.culture.indian 20 11000 843 96% 277 680.8 25 0.28 6.6% comp.arch 21 7200 567 89% 421 667.7 58 0.42 4.5% talk.bizarre 22 10000 814 90% 427 657.5 42 0.30 6.4% rec.arts.movies 23 3000 237 90% 262 632.9 87 0.97 1.9% mod.music.gaffa 24 18000 1389 89% 501 626.1 27 0.16 10.9% rec.humor 25 16000 1242 98% 382 624.4 23 0.18 9.8% comp.unix.wizards 26 3100 244 87% 321 618.0 103 0.91 1.9% rec.motorcycles 27 7500 586 95% 254 581.0 33 0.35 4.6% sci.space 28 9100 716 90% 321 564.6 35 0.28 5.6% rec.audio 29 2200 172 93% 350 561.6 159 1.20 1.4% rec.music.gdead 30 3200 250 86% 354 557.7 110 0.80 2.0% rec.sport.basketball 31 14000 1110 97% 301 492.9 21 0.16 8.7% comp.unix.questions 32 8200 644 94% 18 434.9 2 0.24 5.1% mod.mac 33 6800 533 89% 268 398.8 39 0.27 4.2% rec.arts.tv 34 13000 984 87% 247 398.2 19 0.14 7.7% comp.windows.x 35 9200 723 98% 230 378.6 24 0.19 5.7% comp.emacs 36 5300 412 90% 164 374.1 30 0.32 3.2% misc.kids 37 6800 533 96% 232 368.5 34 0.25 4.2% mod.protocols.tcp-ip 38 3400 265 87% 244 363.7 71 0.49 2.1% rec.aviation 39 7000 545 95% 172 350.0 24 0.23 4.3% sci.med 40 4700 367 89% 137 348.1 29 0.34 2.9% soc.motss