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 PROPAGATION (JUL 87) Message-ID: <11207@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: Sat, 1-Aug-87 10:43:44 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.11207 Posted: Sat Aug 1 10:43:44 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 2-Aug-87 09:36:53 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:212 news.groups:1309 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 20000 1492 99% 354 584.1 17 0.15 10.5% comp.unix.wizards 2 17000 1292 99% 210 208.6 12 0.06 9.1% comp.sources.wanted 3 17000 1266 99% 90 242.0 5 0.07 8.9% news.groups 4 14000 1069 99% 44 70.3 3 0.03 7.5% news.misc 5 11000 797 99% 2 2.9 0 0.00 5.6% news.sysadmin 6 9600 730 99% 5 15.4 0 0.01 5.1% news.lists 7 9100 692 99% 27 30.9 2 0.02 4.9% news.config 8 7200 545 99% 2 5.1 0 0.00 3.8% comp.bugs.misc 9 21000 1605 98% 62 130.0 2 0.03 11.3% comp.sources.d 10 21000 1586 98% 48 944.0 2 0.23 11.2% comp.sources.misc 11 19000 1428 98% 51 2538.2 2 0.67 10.1% comp.sources.games 12 18000 1390 98% 45 1979.5 2 0.56 9.8% comp.sources.unix 13 16000 1179 98% 674 1110.9 42 0.35 8.3% comp.sys.mac 14 16000 1176 98% 65 448.6 4 0.14 8.3% comp.sources.bugs 15 14000 1047 98% 94 221.7 6 0.08 7.4% news.admin 16 14000 1046 98% 78 116.9 5 0.04 7.4% comp.text 17 13000 1003 98% 177 355.7 13 0.14 7.1% comp.emacs 18 13000 969 98% 48 68.3 3 0.03 6.8% comp.mail.uucp 19 11000 847 98% 7 24.6 0 0.01 6.0% comp.org.usenix 20 11000 830 98% 51 96.8 4 0.04 5.8% comp.mail.misc 21 11000 805 98% 98 142.5 8 0.07 5.7% comp.dcom.lans 22 10000 793 98% 40 77.1 4 0.04 5.6% comp.databases 23 10000 778 98% 42 92.8 4 0.05 5.5% comp.bugs.4bsd 24 10000 770 98% 25 77.0 2 0.04 5.4% comp.dcom.modems 25 9600 727 98% 68 108.9 7 0.06 5.1% comp.laser-printers 26 9200 698 98% 238 424.9 25 0.23 4.9% sci.math 27 9100 687 98% 1 2.0 0 0.00 4.8% news.stargate 28 9000 681 98% 7 32.6 0 0.02 4.8% comp.std.unix 29 8900 676 98% 11 47.7 1 0.03 4.8% comp.lang.c++ 30 7900 602 98% 40 63.2 5 0.04 4.2% news.software.b 31 7500 570 98% 42 189.1 5 0.13 4.0% comp.lang.prolog 32 7300 552 98% 4 30.1 0 0.02 3.9% comp.graphics.digest 33 7000 529 98% 25 56.6 3 0.04 3.7% comp.cog-eng 34 7000 527 98% 90 163.0 12 0.12 3.7% comp.unix.xenix 35 4900 375 98% 7 11.3 1 0.01 2.6% sci.math.symbolic 36 4800 367 98% 44 83.0 9 0.09 2.6% comp.sys.nsc.32k 37 4400 333 98% 11 24.3 2 0.03 2.3% sci.math.stat 38 4200 318 98% 7 7.9 1 0.01 2.2% news.software.notes 39 28000 2139 97% 14 55.2 0 0.01 15.1% news.announce.conferences 40 18000 1356 97% 104 117.6 5 0.03 9.6% misc.wanted