Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rutgers!labrea!decwrl!reid From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups Subject: TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY (JUL 87) Message-ID: <11205@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: Sat, 1-Aug-87 10:42:57 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.11205 Posted: Sat Aug 1 10:42:57 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 2-Aug-87 09:36:24 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:210 news.groups:1307 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 28000 2139 97% 14 55.2 0 0.01 15.1% news.announce.conferences 2 25000 1923 90% 160 295.3 6 0.06 13.5% misc.consumers.house 3 24000 1853 96% 881 2044.5 36 0.43 13.1% comp.sys.ibm.pc 4 21000 1610 89% 911 1337.9 43 0.32 11.3% rec.humor 5 21000 1605 98% 62 130.0 2 0.03 11.3% comp.sources.d 6 21000 1586 98% 48 944.0 2 0.23 11.2% comp.sources.misc 7 20000 1492 99% 354 584.1 17 0.15 10.5% comp.unix.wizards 8 19000 1454 86% 81 175.0 4 0.05 10.2% misc.jobs.offered 9 19000 1428 98% 51 2538.2 2 0.67 10.1% comp.sources.games 10 18000 1390 98% 45 1979.5 2 0.56 9.8% comp.sources.unix 11 18000 1356 97% 104 117.6 5 0.03 9.6% misc.wanted 12 18000 1339 97% 301 452.5 16 0.13 9.4% comp.unix.questions 13 17000 1317 89% 144 151.3 8 0.04 9.3% misc.forsale 14 17000 1295 96% 587 947.8 34 0.28 9.1% comp.lang.c 15 17000 1292 99% 210 208.6 12 0.06 9.1% comp.sources.wanted 16 17000 1266 99% 90 242.0 5 0.07 8.9% news.groups 17 16000 1244 97% 5 23.8 0 0.01 8.8% comp.newprod 18 16000 1241 89% 671 1221.7 41 0.39 8.7% soc.singles 19 16000 1189 96% 87 169.7 5 0.05 8.4% comp.misc 20 16000 1179 98% 674 1110.9 42 0.35 8.3% comp.sys.mac 21 16000 1176 98% 65 448.6 4 0.14 8.3% comp.sources.bugs 22 15000 1122 96% 107 380.3 7 0.13 7.9% comp.graphics 23 14000 1069 99% 44 70.3 3 0.03 7.5% news.misc 24 14000 1047 98% 94 221.7 6 0.08 7.4% news.admin 25 14000 1046 98% 78 116.9 5 0.04 7.4% comp.text 26 14000 1040 94% 524 925.4 37 0.33 7.3% rec.arts.sf-lovers 27 14000 1030 95% 167 304.1 11 0.11 7.3% comp.arch 28 13000 1003 98% 177 355.7 13 0.14 7.1% comp.emacs 29 13000 969 98% 48 68.3 3 0.03 6.8% comp.mail.uucp 30 13000 949 92% 40 104.8 3 0.04 6.7% comp.ai 31 12000 945 91% 690 1101.2 57 0.46 6.7% rec.arts.movies 32 12000 942 87% 110 183.4 9 0.08 6.6% misc.jobs.misc 33 12000 928 95% 254 496.7 21 0.21 6.5% sci.med 34 12000 922 96% 862 2144.0 71 0.90 6.5% comp.sys.amiga 35 12000 916 95% 182 336.9 15 0.14 6.5% misc.misc 36 12000 894 97% 41 87.0 3 0.04 6.3% comp.compilers 37 12000 892 97% 225 757.2 18 0.32 6.3% comp.os.minix 38 11000 858 89% 218 377.1 19 0.17 6.0% rec.travel 39 11000 847 98% 7 24.6 0 0.01 6.0% comp.org.usenix 40 11000 847 89% 15 55.1 1 0.03 6.0% rec.arts.movies.reviews