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 PROPAGATION (JUN 87) Message-ID: <10631@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: Wed, 1-Jul-87 10:08:48 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.10631 Posted: Wed Jul 1 10:08:48 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 2-Jul-87 06:52:13 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:191 news.groups:1130 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 1405 99% 477 787.0 26 0.22 9.7% comp.unix.wizards 2 15000 1220 99% 168 177.3 11 0.06 8.4% comp.sources.wanted 3 15000 1180 99% 101 196.6 6 0.07 8.1% news.groups 4 13000 1049 99% 67 113.3 5 0.04 7.2% news.misc 5 9600 756 99% 32 50.5 3 0.03 5.2% news.config 6 7700 608 99% 40 82.2 5 0.05 4.2% news.software.b 7 20000 1588 98% 164 341.5 8 0.09 11.0% comp.sources.d 8 13000 1047 98% 10 18.0 0 0.01 7.2% comp.bugs.4bsd.ucb-fixes 9 13000 1046 98% 35 51.7 2 0.02 7.2% comp.mail.uucp 10 12000 986 98% 21 32.6 1 0.01 6.8% news.admin 11 12000 940 98% 54 83.8 4 0.04 6.5% comp.text 12 11000 878 98% 224 344.1 20 0.16 6.1% comp.emacs 13 11000 847 98% 68 147.7 6 0.07 5.8% comp.org.usenix 14 10000 815 98% 52 114.4 5 0.06 5.6% comp.mail.misc 15 10000 813 98% 100 191.3 10 0.10 5.6% comp.dcom.lans 16 9500 754 98% 61 157.4 6 0.08 5.2% comp.databases 17 9500 747 98% 17 119.5 1 0.06 5.2% news.lists 18 9400 743 98% 61 128.3 6 0.07 5.1% comp.dcom.modems 19 8600 681 98% 7 13.4 0 0.01 4.7% news.stargate 20 8400 666 98% 41 102.2 4 0.06 4.6% comp.lang.c++ 21 8100 639 98% 7 9.1 0 0.01 4.4% news.sysadmin 22 7100 558 98% 21 86.0 3 0.06 3.9% comp.cog-eng 23 6200 491 98% 40 74.1 6 0.06 3.4% comp.unix.xenix 24 5600 446 98% 2 2.1 0 0.00 3.1% comp.mail.headers 25 4300 341 98% 1 2.8 0 0.00 2.4% comp.bugs.misc 26 16000 1288 97% 111 123.8 6 0.04 8.9% misc.wanted 27 14000 1135 97% 802 1317.2 57 0.48 7.8% comp.sys.mac 28 11000 887 97% 175 625.3 15 0.29 6.1% comp.os.minix 29 9800 775 97% 235 652.3 24 0.34 5.4% sci.space 30 9400 741 97% 31 73.5 3 0.04 5.1% sci.astro 31 9100 717 97% 87 128.2 9 0.07 5.0% sci.electronics 32 8900 700 97% 195 354.8 21 0.20 4.8% sci.math 33 8600 682 97% 7 21.3 0 0.01 4.7% sci.space.shuttle 34 8300 659 97% 395 1361.1 47 0.83 4.6% comp.sys.atari.st 35 7400 586 97% 7 11.5 0 0.01 4.0% comp.bugs.sys5 36 7200 571 97% 20 27.6 2 0.02 3.9% comp.lang.prolog 37 5100 402 97% 8 8.7 1 0.01 2.8% sci.math.stat 38 4900 391 97% 71 130.5 14 0.13 2.7% comp.lang.ada 39 4900 390 97% 45 81.8 9 0.08 2.7% comp.sys.nsc.32k 40 4300 342 97% 1 6.5 0 0.01 2.4% sci.math.symbolic