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 TRAFFIC VOLUME (JUL 87) Message-ID: <11208@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: Sat, 1-Aug-87 10:44:08 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.11208 Posted: Sat Aug 1 10:44:08 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 2-Aug-87 09:37:07 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:213 news.groups:1310 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 19000 1428 98% 51 2538.2 2 0.67 10.1% comp.sources.games 2 3900 292 90% 52 2531.5 13 3.30 2.1% comp.mail.maps 3 6300 480 65% 921 2197.7 146 1.80 3.4% soc.men 4 12000 922 96% 862 2144.0 71 0.90 6.5% comp.sys.amiga 5 8900 674 97% 440 2080.2 49 1.20 4.7% comp.sys.atari.st 6 24000 1853 96% 881 2044.5 36 0.43 13.1% comp.sys.ibm.pc 7 18000 1390 98% 45 1979.5 2 0.56 9.8% comp.sources.unix 8 9400 713 71% 42 1727.6 4 0.93 5.0% comp.binaries.ibm.pc 9 6900 523 88% 670 1704.5 97 1.20 3.7% talk.politics.misc 10 11000 831 89% 714 1685.0 64 0.77 5.9% soc.women 11 8000 610 95% 878 1489.2 109 0.94 4.3% rec.music.misc 12 8100 613 96% 611 1470.6 75 0.92 4.3% comp.os.vms 13 21000 1610 89% 911 1337.9 43 0.32 11.3% rec.humor 14 16000 1241 89% 671 1221.7 41 0.39 8.7% soc.singles 15 6100 462 91% 210 1183.3 34 0.98 3.3% rec.arts.drwho 16 9900 747 88% 661 1113.5 66 0.57 5.3% rec.autos 17 16000 1179 98% 674 1110.9 42 0.35 8.3% comp.sys.mac 18 12000 945 91% 690 1101.2 57 0.46 6.7% rec.arts.movies 19 8700 658 96% 37 956.7 4 0.56 4.6% comp.binaries.mac 20 17000 1295 96% 587 947.8 34 0.28 9.1% comp.lang.c 21 21000 1586 98% 48 944.0 2 0.23 11.2% comp.sources.misc 22 11000 827 88% 668 935.7 60 0.43 5.8% talk.bizarre 23 14000 1040 94% 524 925.4 37 0.33 7.3% rec.arts.sf-lovers 24 5200 393 94% 417 886.6 80 0.86 2.8% soc.culture.indian 25 4400 337 94% 612 881.6 139 1.00 2.4% rec.music.gdead 26 8800 669 89% 404 876.5 45 0.50 4.7% misc.headlines 27 5800 436 96% 341 821.8 58 0.72 3.1% comp.sys.apple 28 7000 533 89% 407 803.9 58 0.58 3.8% rec.arts.comics 29 12000 892 97% 225 757.2 18 0.32 6.3% comp.os.minix 30 10000 771 97% 360 737.4 36 0.37 5.4% sci.space 31 4100 308 88% 201 671.1 49 0.83 2.2% talk.religion.misc 32 9000 682 89% 417 655.6 46 0.37 4.8% rec.arts.startrek 33 4200 316 86% 230 623.0 54 0.75 2.2% talk.religion.newage 34 4200 317 90% 292 621.0 69 0.75 2.2% rec.ham-radio 35 7800 592 89% 457 619.3 58 0.40 4.2% rec.arts.tv 36 4300 323 94% 252 587.9 58 0.69 2.3% soc.culture.jewish 37 5100 389 88% 360 584.6 70 0.58 2.7% rec.bicycles 38 20000 1492 99% 354 584.1 17 0.15 10.5% comp.unix.wizards 39 4000 307 88% 385 556.3 96 0.70 2.2% rec.sport.baseball 40 3000 225 96% 5 555.4 1 0.93 1.6% comp.org.fidonet