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 PROPAGATION (MAY 87) Message-ID: <10154@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: Mon, 1-Jun-87 11:49:30 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.10154 Posted: Mon Jun 1 11:49:30 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Jun-87 01:58:43 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:162 news.groups:917 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 18000 1440 99% 74 121.9 4 0.03 10.1% comp.sources.d 2 18000 1417 99% 314 482.3 17 0.13 9.9% comp.unix.wizards 3 15000 1207 99% 682 1033.2 45 0.33 8.4% comp.sys.mac 4 14000 1088 99% 1 2.2 0 0.00 7.6% comp.bugs.4bsd.ucb-fixes 5 14000 1079 99% 112 203.3 8 0.07 7.5% news.groups 6 14000 1078 99% 138 184.5 9 0.06 7.5% comp.sources.wanted 7 13000 983 99% 95 179.8 7 0.07 6.9% news.misc 8 12000 972 99% 60 159.1 5 0.06 6.8% comp.mail.uucp 9 11000 875 99% 71 126.2 6 0.05 6.1% news.admin 10 10000 795 99% 148 245.5 14 0.12 5.6% comp.emacs 11 9800 762 99% 37 74.1 3 0.04 5.3% comp.dcom.lans 12 9400 736 99% 45 111.9 4 0.06 5.1% comp.databases 13 9400 730 99% 41 46.2 4 0.02 5.1% comp.org.usenix 14 9300 724 99% 54 81.9 5 0.04 5.1% comp.dcom.modems 15 8900 691 99% 1 1.0 0 0.00 4.8% news.sysadmin 16 7900 613 99% 45 75.0 5 0.05 4.3% comp.lang.c++ 17 7800 608 99% 18 21.3 2 0.01 4.3% news.config 18 7800 605 99% 18 77.6 2 0.05 4.2% comp.lang.prolog 19 7600 594 99% 22 51.9 3 0.03 4.2% news.software.b 20 7500 584 99% 2 4.1 0 0.00 4.1% comp.bugs.misc 21 5900 461 99% 2 3.4 0 0.00 3.2% comp.mail.headers 22 14000 1129 98% 81 99.2 5 0.03 7.9% misc.wanted 23 11000 843 98% 57 72.8 5 0.03 5.9% comp.text 24 8800 689 98% 62 106.4 7 0.06 4.8% comp.mail.misc 25 8300 645 98% 35 84.8 4 0.05 4.5% news.stargate 26 7900 619 98% 141 262.8 17 0.16 4.3% sci.math 27 7000 547 98% 8 21.1 1 0.01 3.8% comp.bugs.sys5 28 6200 480 98% 35 45.2 5 0.03 3.4% comp.unix.xenix 29 5300 413 98% 7 30.4 1 0.03 2.9% sci.math.symbolic 30 4500 353 98% 4 84.1 0 0.09 2.5% news.software.notes 31 4400 343 98% 14 37.5 3 0.04 2.4% sci.math.stat 32 4400 340 98% 42 95.7 9 0.10 2.4% comp.lang.ada 33 22000 1729 97% 618 951.5 28 0.21 12.1% comp.sys.ibm.pc 34 16000 1274 97% 480 739.5 30 0.22 8.9% comp.unix.questions 35 14000 1109 97% 191 387.1 13 0.13 7.8% comp.lang.c 36 14000 1101 97% 71 88.2 5 0.03 7.7% comp.graphics 37 13000 978 97% 222 594.5 17 0.22 6.8% comp.arch 38 12000 899 97% 828 3049.5 69 1.20 6.3% comp.sys.amiga 39 9600 750 97% 30 37.8 3 0.02 5.2% comp.sys.misc 40 9000 705 97% 251 587.5 27 0.31 4.9% sci.space