Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!sri-spam!mordor!lll-tis!ames!amdcad!decwrl!reid From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups Subject: TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY (JUN 87) Message-ID: <10629@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: Wed, 1-Jul-87 10:07:47 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.10629 Posted: Wed Jul 1 10:07:47 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 2-Jul-87 06:48:49 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:189 news.groups:1128 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 23000 1798 92% 21 82.2 0 0.02 12.4% news.announce.conferences 2 23000 1782 89% 72 117.1 3 0.03 12.3% misc.consumers.house 3 22000 1761 96% 580 1045.5 26 0.24 12.2% comp.sys.ibm.pc 4 20000 1588 98% 164 341.5 8 0.09 11.0% comp.sources.d 5 19000 1534 89% 965 1165.9 50 0.31 10.6% rec.humor 6 18000 1405 99% 477 787.0 26 0.22 9.7% comp.unix.wizards 7 17000 1323 78% 54 108.3 3 0.03 9.1% misc.jobs.offered 8 17000 1315 91% 48 1318.6 2 0.39 9.1% comp.sources.misc 9 16000 1300 88% 135 150.4 8 0.05 9.0% misc.forsale 10 16000 1288 97% 111 123.8 6 0.04 8.9% misc.wanted 11 16000 1273 96% 338 522.6 21 0.16 8.8% comp.unix.questions 12 16000 1254 96% 445 824.3 27 0.26 8.7% comp.lang.c 13 16000 1230 93% 34 1373.5 2 0.43 8.5% comp.sources.games 14 15000 1220 99% 168 177.3 11 0.06 8.4% comp.sources.wanted 15 15000 1180 99% 101 196.6 6 0.07 8.1% news.groups 16 15000 1156 95% 81 142.5 5 0.05 8.0% comp.misc 17 14000 1135 97% 802 1317.2 57 0.48 7.8% comp.sys.mac 18 14000 1124 96% 122 351.8 8 0.13 7.8% comp.graphics 19 14000 1076 91% 1 1.0 0 0.00 7.4% news.announce.important 20 14000 1067 89% 1340 2186.8 95 0.79 7.4% soc.singles 21 13000 1049 99% 67 113.3 5 0.04 7.2% news.misc 22 13000 1047 98% 10 18.0 0 0.01 7.2% comp.bugs.4bsd.ucb-fixes 23 13000 1047 93% 41 53.0 3 0.02 7.2% comp.sources.bugs 24 13000 1046 98% 35 51.7 2 0.02 7.2% comp.mail.uucp 25 13000 1028 95% 107 207.8 8 0.08 7.1% comp.arch 26 13000 1004 44% 10 93.8 0 0.04 6.9% net.sources 27 12000 987 93% 97 297.0 8 0.12 6.8% comp.ai 28 12000 986 98% 21 32.6 1 0.01 6.8% news.admin 29 12000 940 98% 54 83.8 4 0.04 6.5% comp.text 30 12000 939 91% 8 22.4 0 0.01 6.5% comp.newprod 31 12000 935 79% 191 380.6 15 0.16 6.5% misc.jobs.misc 32 12000 930 94% 674 1154.5 56 0.49 6.4% rec.arts.sf-lovers 33 12000 919 96% 837 2453.3 69 1.00 6.3% comp.sys.amiga 34 11000 887 97% 175 625.3 15 0.29 6.1% comp.os.minix 35 11000 882 95% 224 399.9 20 0.18 6.1% misc.misc 36 11000 878 98% 224 344.1 20 0.16 6.1% comp.emacs 37 11000 856 87% 50 187.9 4 0.09 5.9% rec.arts.movies.reviews 38 11000 852 90% 440 784.2 40 0.36 5.9% rec.arts.movies 39 11000 847 98% 68 147.7 6 0.07 5.8% comp.org.usenix 40 11000 841 91% 7 42.5 0 0.02 5.8% comp.compilers