Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!ut-sally!husc6!mit-eddie!ll-xn!cit-vax!ucla-cs!zen!ucbvax!decvax!decwrl!reid From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups Subject: TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY (AUG 87) Message-ID: <11579@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: Tue, 1-Sep-87 07:37:02 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.11579 Posted: Tue Sep 1 07:37:02 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Sep-87 02:35:03 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:226 news.groups:1443 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 32000 2390 98% 18 91.0 0 0.01 15.9% news.announce.conferences 2 28000 2048 90% 82 116.7 2 0.02 13.6% misc.consumers.house 3 24000 1774 98% 55 1873.0 2 0.40 11.8% comp.sources.misc 4 23000 1731 89% 385 489.7 16 0.11 11.5% rec.humor 5 23000 1720 92% 48 97.6 2 0.02 11.4% misc.jobs.offered 6 23000 1719 96% 732 1356.6 31 0.30 11.4% comp.sys.ibm.pc 7 23000 1690 99% 38 1532.6 1 0.34 11.2% comp.sources.unix 8 21000 1566 99% 372 605.7 17 0.15 10.4% comp.unix.wizards 9 21000 1547 99% 144 349.6 6 0.08 10.3% comp.sources.d 10 21000 1541 99% 4 106.0 0 0.03 10.3% comp.sources.games 11 20000 1457 97% 605 1067.6 30 0.27 9.7% comp.lang.c 12 19000 1434 97% 81 91.3 4 0.02 9.5% misc.wanted 13 19000 1418 99% 65 82.9 3 0.02 9.4% news.groups 14 19000 1400 97% 337 543.3 17 0.15 9.3% comp.unix.questions 15 19000 1393 88% 981 1694.3 51 0.45 9.3% soc.singles 16 19000 1392 99% 244 260.3 12 0.07 9.3% comp.sources.wanted 17 18000 1341 89% 101 97.0 5 0.03 8.9% misc.forsale 18 18000 1329 98% 91 199.1 5 0.06 8.8% comp.sources.bugs 19 17000 1293 98% 811 1221.9 47 0.37 8.6% comp.sys.mac 20 17000 1287 96% 115 195.1 6 0.06 8.6% comp.misc 21 16000 1195 96% 92 146.7 5 0.05 8.0% comp.graphics 22 16000 1166 98% 0 0.0 0 0.00 7.8% news.announce.important 23 15000 1145 96% 287 555.4 19 0.19 7.6% comp.arch 24 15000 1131 97% 215 382.4 14 0.13 7.5% sci.med 25 15000 1092 99% 7 7.2 0 0.00 7.3% news.misc 26 14000 1079 98% 42 127.5 3 0.05 7.2% comp.compilers 27 14000 1064 99% 71 100.5 5 0.04 7.1% comp.text 28 14000 1061 99% 172 395.0 12 0.14 7.1% comp.emacs 29 14000 1054 92% 80 113.6 5 0.04 7.0% misc.jobs.misc 30 14000 1053 93% 44 154.8 3 0.06 7.0% comp.ai 31 14000 1046 95% 264 504.7 18 0.18 7.0% rec.arts.sf-lovers 32 13000 990 91% 455 693.9 35 0.27 6.6% rec.arts.movies 33 13000 984 99% 67 107.3 5 0.04 6.5% comp.mail.uucp 34 13000 980 98% 1 1.0 0 0.00 6.5% comp.unix 35 13000 968 99% 82 162.1 6 0.06 6.4% news.admin 36 13000 948 96% 77 158.8 5 0.06 6.3% misc.misc 37 13000 941 81% 12 649.9 0 0.25 6.3% comp.binaries.ibm.pc 38 12000 903 42% 34 44.9 2 0.02 6.0% rec.humor.funny 39 12000 899 88% 618 753.2 51 0.32 6.0% talk.bizarre 40 12000 887 88% 961 2063.6 80 0.88 5.9% soc.women