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 TRAFFIC VOLUME (JUN 87) Message-ID: <10632@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: Wed, 1-Jul-87 10:09:26 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.10632 Posted: Wed Jul 1 10:09:26 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 2-Jul-87 06:56:38 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:192 news.groups:1131 TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY TRAFFIC VOLUME 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 8900 705 89% 1434 3000.2 161 1.70 4.9% soc.women 2 12000 919 96% 837 2453.3 69 1.00 6.3% comp.sys.amiga 3 10000 819 93% 48 2258.1 4 1.10 5.7% comp.sources.unix 4 14000 1067 89% 1340 2186.8 95 0.79 7.4% soc.singles 5 7600 599 90% 48 2027.1 6 1.30 4.1% comp.binaries.mac 6 5900 468 90% 734 1695.1 124 1.50 3.2% comp.os.vms 7 9200 730 88% 1012 1668.0 110 0.92 5.0% rec.autos 8 16000 1230 93% 34 1373.5 2 0.43 8.5% comp.sources.games 9 5200 413 87% 585 1361.5 112 1.30 2.9% talk.politics.misc 10 8300 659 97% 395 1361.1 47 0.83 4.6% comp.sys.atari.st 11 17000 1315 91% 48 1318.6 2 0.39 9.1% comp.sources.misc 12 14000 1135 97% 802 1317.2 57 0.48 7.8% comp.sys.mac 13 2200 174 24% 578 1195.0 262 2.70 1.2% soc.men 14 19000 1534 89% 965 1165.9 50 0.31 10.6% rec.humor 15 12000 930 94% 674 1154.5 56 0.49 6.4% rec.arts.sf-lovers 16 4000 320 88% 657 1099.4 164 1.40 2.2% rec.aviation 17 2800 221 33% 24 1096.0 8 2.00 1.5% comp.binaries.ibm.pc 18 22000 1761 96% 580 1045.5 26 0.24 12.2% comp.sys.ibm.pc 19 7500 593 95% 584 966.0 77 0.65 4.1% rec.music.misc 20 9700 770 89% 537 881.8 55 0.46 5.3% rec.audio 21 16000 1254 96% 445 824.3 27 0.26 8.7% comp.lang.c 22 5800 462 94% 234 811.5 40 0.71 3.2% rec.games.hack 23 18000 1405 99% 477 787.0 26 0.22 9.7% comp.unix.wizards 24 11000 852 90% 440 784.2 40 0.36 5.9% rec.arts.movies 25 5000 393 85% 15 752.0 3 0.76 2.7% comp.mail.maps 26 2700 211 89% 22 696.4 8 1.30 1.5% comp.binaries.amiga 27 9800 775 97% 235 652.3 24 0.34 5.4% sci.space 28 8100 637 89% 367 635.4 45 0.40 4.4% rec.arts.startrek 29 11000 887 97% 175 625.3 15 0.29 6.1% comp.os.minix 30 4000 315 89% 227 611.2 56 0.77 2.2% rec.ham-radio 31 10000 806 88% 524 608.9 52 0.31 5.6% talk.bizarre 32 3700 295 88% 185 604.4 50 0.82 2.0% talk.religion.misc 33 3600 282 87% 314 596.1 87 0.84 1.9% rec.sport.basketball 34 4600 363 88% 375 590.0 81 0.65 2.5% rec.bicycles 35 4500 353 94% 272 575.0 60 0.65 2.4% soc.culture.indian 36 3700 293 93% 454 559.9 122 0.76 2.0% rec.music.gdead 37 6300 496 88% 267 544.4 42 0.44 3.4% rec.arts.comics 38 16000 1273 96% 338 522.6 21 0.16 8.8% comp.unix.questions 39 9000 711 95% 242 431.8 26 0.24 4.9% sci.physics 40 7900 628 88% 205 429.2 26 0.27 4.3% misc.headlines