Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!husc6!mit-eddie!ll-xn!ames!oliveb!pyramid!decwrl!reid From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups Subject: TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY (MAY 87) Message-ID: <10152@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: Mon, 1-Jun-87 11:48:37 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.10152 Posted: Mon Jun 1 11:48:37 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Jun-87 01:57:01 EDT Sender: reid@decwrl.DEC.COM Organization: DEC Western Research Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif., USA Lines: 54 Approved: reid@decwrl.dec.com Xref: mnetor news.lists:160 news.groups:915 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 25000 1977 77% 1 1.5 0 0.00 13.8% news.announce.important 2 22000 1729 97% 618 951.5 28 0.21 12.1% comp.sys.ibm.pc 3 22000 1715 90% 142 251.2 6 0.05 12.0% misc.consumers.house 4 20000 1559 70% 2 1.2 0 0.00 10.9% net.sources 5 20000 1532 95% 164 323.4 8 0.08 10.7% misc.jobs 6 19000 1502 90% 905 942.1 47 0.24 10.5% rec.humor 7 18000 1440 99% 74 121.9 4 0.03 10.1% comp.sources.d 8 18000 1417 99% 314 482.3 17 0.13 9.9% comp.unix.wizards 9 17000 1329 78% 11 36.7 0 0.01 9.3% news.announce.conferences 10 16000 1274 97% 480 739.5 30 0.22 8.9% comp.unix.questions 11 15000 1207 99% 682 1033.2 45 0.33 8.4% comp.sys.mac 12 15000 1182 90% 104 109.1 6 0.03 8.3% misc.forsale 13 14000 1129 98% 81 99.2 5 0.03 7.9% misc.wanted 14 14000 1109 97% 191 387.1 13 0.13 7.8% comp.lang.c 15 14000 1105 96% 101 155.5 7 0.05 7.7% comp.misc 16 14000 1101 97% 71 88.2 5 0.03 7.7% comp.graphics 17 14000 1088 99% 1 2.2 0 0.00 7.6% comp.bugs.4bsd.ucb-fixes 18 14000 1079 99% 112 203.3 8 0.07 7.5% news.groups 19 14000 1078 99% 138 184.5 9 0.06 7.5% comp.sources.wanted 20 13000 983 99% 95 179.8 7 0.07 6.9% news.misc 21 13000 978 97% 222 594.5 17 0.22 6.8% comp.arch 22 12000 972 99% 60 159.1 5 0.06 6.8% comp.mail.uucp 23 12000 958 96% 148 373.0 12 0.15 6.7% comp.os.minix 24 12000 951 78% 30 556.3 2 0.22 6.7% comp.sources.misc 25 12000 937 90% 890 1407.7 74 0.56 6.6% soc.singles 26 12000 926 95% 57 145.3 4 0.06 6.5% comp.ai 27 12000 902 85% 32 1478.3 2 0.59 6.3% comp.sources.games 28 12000 899 97% 828 3049.5 69 1.20 6.3% comp.sys.amiga 29 11000 894 94% 112 180.6 10 0.08 6.3% comp.windows.x 30 11000 883 82% 11 42.0 1 0.02 6.2% comp.newprod 31 11000 875 99% 71 126.2 6 0.05 6.1% news.admin 32 11000 869 96% 270 555.1 24 0.24 6.1% misc.misc 33 11000 869 91% 280 477.8 25 0.21 6.1% rec.arts.movies 34 11000 843 98% 57 72.8 5 0.03 5.9% comp.text 35 11000 834 94% 810 1696.0 73 0.74 5.8% rec.arts.sf-lovers 36 10000 815 86% 28 28.2 2 0.01 5.7% comp.sources.bugs 37 10000 805 81% 4 10.5 0 0.01 5.6% comp.compilers 38 10000 800 89% 141 203.9 14 0.10 5.6% talk.rumors 39 10000 795 99% 148 245.5 14 0.12 5.6% comp.emacs 40 10000 776 88% 68 117.0 6 0.06 5.4% rec.nude