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 PER-READER COST (JUN 87) Message-ID: <10630@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: Wed, 1-Jul-87 10:08:24 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.10630 Posted: Wed Jul 1 10:08:24 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 2-Jul-87 06:50:02 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:190 news.groups:1129 TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PER-READER COST 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 2200 174 24% 578 1195.0 262 2.70 1.2% soc.men 2 2800 221 33% 24 1096.0 8 2.00 1.5% comp.binaries.ibm.pc 3 8900 705 89% 1434 3000.2 161 1.70 4.9% soc.women 4 5900 468 90% 734 1695.1 124 1.50 3.2% comp.os.vms 5 4000 320 88% 657 1099.4 164 1.40 2.2% rec.aviation 6 7600 599 90% 48 2027.1 6 1.30 4.1% comp.binaries.mac 7 5200 413 87% 585 1361.5 112 1.30 2.9% talk.politics.misc 8 2700 211 89% 22 696.4 8 1.30 1.5% comp.binaries.amiga 9 10000 819 93% 48 2258.1 4 1.10 5.7% comp.sources.unix 10 12000 919 96% 837 2453.3 69 1.00 6.3% comp.sys.amiga 11 9200 730 88% 1012 1668.0 110 0.92 5.0% rec.autos 12 3600 282 87% 314 596.1 87 0.84 1.9% rec.sport.basketball 13 8300 659 97% 395 1361.1 47 0.83 4.6% comp.sys.atari.st 14 3700 295 88% 185 604.4 50 0.82 2.0% talk.religion.misc 15 14000 1067 89% 1340 2186.8 95 0.79 7.4% soc.singles 16 4000 315 89% 227 611.2 56 0.77 2.2% rec.ham-radio 17 5000 393 85% 15 752.0 3 0.76 2.7% comp.mail.maps 18 3700 293 93% 454 559.9 122 0.76 2.0% rec.music.gdead 19 5800 462 94% 234 811.5 40 0.71 3.2% rec.games.hack 20 7500 593 95% 584 966.0 77 0.65 4.1% rec.music.misc 21 4600 363 88% 375 590.0 81 0.65 2.5% rec.bicycles 22 4500 353 94% 272 575.0 60 0.65 2.4% soc.culture.indian 23 3100 243 90% 155 344.7 50 0.56 1.7% comp.sys.apollo 24 1500 119 86% 41 160.7 27 0.54 0.8% misc.handicap 25 12000 930 94% 674 1154.5 56 0.49 6.4% rec.arts.sf-lovers 26 14000 1135 97% 802 1317.2 57 0.48 7.8% comp.sys.mac 27 3200 249 90% 105 304.8 33 0.48 1.7% rec.music.gaffa 28 9700 770 89% 537 881.8 55 0.46 5.3% rec.audio 29 6300 496 88% 267 544.4 42 0.44 3.4% rec.arts.comics 30 16000 1230 93% 34 1373.5 2 0.43 8.5% comp.sources.games 31 8100 637 89% 367 635.4 45 0.40 4.4% rec.arts.startrek 32 4600 364 87% 221 366.3 48 0.40 2.5% rec.pets 33 4000 317 94% 151 319.4 37 0.40 2.2% soc.culture.jewish 34 17000 1315 91% 48 1318.6 2 0.39 9.1% comp.sources.misc 35 11000 852 90% 440 784.2 40 0.36 5.9% rec.arts.movies 36 3500 277 88% 145 252.5 41 0.36 1.9% rec.motorcycles 37 2200 173 81% 7 158.7 3 0.36 1.2% soc.politics.arms-d 38 5200 408 91% 188 362.0 36 0.35 2.8% rec.arts.drwho 39 9800 775 97% 235 652.3 24 0.34 5.4% sci.space 40 3800 304 87% 154 249.3 40 0.33 2.1% rec.sport.baseball