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 PER-READER COST (JUL 87) Message-ID: <11206@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: Sat, 1-Aug-87 10:43:22 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.11206 Posted: Sat Aug 1 10:43:22 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 2-Aug-87 09:36:38 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:211 news.groups:1308 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 3900 292 90% 52 2531.5 13 3.30 2.1% comp.mail.maps 2 6300 480 65% 921 2197.7 146 1.80 3.4% soc.men 3 8900 674 97% 440 2080.2 49 1.20 4.7% comp.sys.atari.st 4 6900 523 88% 670 1704.5 97 1.20 3.7% talk.politics.misc 5 4400 337 94% 612 881.6 139 1.00 2.4% rec.music.gdead 6 6100 462 91% 210 1183.3 34 0.98 3.3% rec.arts.drwho 7 8000 610 95% 878 1489.2 109 0.94 4.3% rec.music.misc 8 9400 713 71% 42 1727.6 4 0.93 5.0% comp.binaries.ibm.pc 9 3000 225 96% 5 555.4 1 0.93 1.6% comp.org.fidonet 10 8100 613 96% 611 1470.6 75 0.92 4.3% comp.os.vms 11 12000 922 96% 862 2144.0 71 0.90 6.5% comp.sys.amiga 12 5200 393 94% 417 886.6 80 0.86 2.8% soc.culture.indian 13 4100 308 88% 201 671.1 49 0.83 2.2% talk.religion.misc 14 11000 831 89% 714 1685.0 64 0.77 5.9% soc.women 15 4200 317 90% 292 621.0 69 0.75 2.2% rec.ham-radio 16 4200 316 86% 230 623.0 54 0.75 2.2% talk.religion.newage 17 5800 436 96% 341 821.8 58 0.72 3.1% comp.sys.apple 18 4000 307 88% 385 556.3 96 0.70 2.2% rec.sport.baseball 19 4300 323 94% 252 587.9 58 0.69 2.3% soc.culture.jewish 20 19000 1428 98% 51 2538.2 2 0.67 10.1% comp.sources.games 21 2700 208 21% 12 352.1 4 0.66 1.5% alt.sources 22 1400 108 88% 80 180.3 57 0.65 0.8% misc.handicap 23 2200 170 88% 10 271.7 4 0.62 1.2% soc.politics.arms-d 24 4300 323 88% 311 520.8 72 0.61 2.3% rec.aviation 25 1200 94 93% 2 139.5 2 0.59 0.7% rec.mag 26 7000 533 89% 407 803.9 58 0.58 3.8% rec.arts.comics 27 5100 389 88% 360 584.6 70 0.58 2.7% rec.bicycles 28 3500 267 95% 142 399.4 40 0.58 1.9% rec.music.gaffa 29 9900 747 88% 661 1113.5 66 0.57 5.3% rec.autos 30 18000 1390 98% 45 1979.5 2 0.56 9.8% comp.sources.unix 31 8700 658 96% 37 956.7 4 0.56 4.6% comp.binaries.mac 32 2700 202 88% 77 282.4 28 0.53 1.4% talk.origins 33 8800 669 89% 404 876.5 45 0.50 4.7% misc.headlines 34 12000 945 91% 690 1101.2 57 0.46 6.7% rec.arts.movies 35 24000 1853 96% 881 2044.5 36 0.43 13.1% comp.sys.ibm.pc 36 11000 827 88% 668 935.7 60 0.43 5.8% talk.bizarre 37 7800 592 89% 457 619.3 58 0.40 4.2% rec.arts.tv 38 4700 354 89% 227 371.5 48 0.40 2.5% rec.photo 39 16000 1241 89% 671 1221.7 41 0.39 8.7% soc.singles 40 10000 771 97% 360 737.4 36 0.37 5.4% sci.space