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 PER-READER COST (AUG 87) Message-ID: <11580@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: Tue, 1-Sep-87 07:37:11 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.11580 Posted: Tue Sep 1 07:37:11 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Sep-87 02:52:02 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:227 news.groups:1444 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 1700 123 97% 15 601.4 9 1.80 0.8% comp.doc 2 6600 490 88% 502 1382.2 76 1.10 3.3% talk.politics.misc 3 5000 369 86% 300 1106.7 60 1.10 2.5% talk.religion.newage 4 4900 364 89% 588 1042.5 120 1.10 2.4% rec.aviation 5 12000 887 88% 961 2063.6 80 0.88 5.9% soc.women 6 9300 692 89% 382 1427.9 41 0.78 4.6% rec.arts.startrek 7 3000 224 87% 117 436.8 39 0.74 1.5% talk.origins 8 6400 477 89% 334 920.0 52 0.73 3.2% rec.arts.comics 9 2200 166 89% 10 293.8 4 0.68 1.1% soc.politics.arms-d 10 4600 339 94% 240 590.0 52 0.65 2.3% soc.culture.jewish 11 11000 838 96% 624 1325.7 56 0.61 5.6% comp.sys.amiga 12 7900 590 73% 465 922.9 58 0.59 3.9% soc.men 13 8700 648 95% 662 986.3 76 0.58 4.3% rec.music.misc 14 3300 245 95% 67 365.1 20 0.56 1.6% comp.sys.atari.8bit 15 4400 326 94% 300 458.2 68 0.53 2.2% rec.music.gdead 16 4600 346 88% 301 435.4 65 0.48 2.3% rec.sport.baseball 17 1500 109 88% 57 142.8 38 0.48 0.7% misc.handicap 18 19000 1393 88% 981 1694.3 51 0.45 9.3% soc.singles 19 5100 379 94% 257 428.6 50 0.43 2.5% rec.ham-radio 20 9000 669 97% 252 740.5 28 0.42 4.5% comp.os.vms 21 5600 417 94% 210 459.3 37 0.42 2.8% soc.culture.indian 22 24000 1774 98% 55 1873.0 2 0.40 11.8% comp.sources.misc 23 5100 383 98% 190 400.7 37 0.40 2.5% comp.lang.ada 24 9600 717 96% 47 744.5 4 0.39 4.8% comp.binaries.mac 25 5300 397 88% 262 398.3 49 0.38 2.6% rec.bicycles 26 17000 1293 98% 811 1221.9 47 0.37 8.6% comp.sys.mac 27 11000 806 88% 490 764.4 44 0.35 5.4% rec.autos 28 23000 1690 99% 38 1532.6 1 0.34 11.2% comp.sources.unix 29 4500 335 88% 184 291.2 40 0.33 2.2% rec.sport.football 30 3700 274 97% 4 240.2 1 0.33 1.8% comp.org.fidonet 31 12000 899 88% 618 753.2 51 0.32 6.0% talk.bizarre 32 1100 79 87% 22 68.9 20 0.32 0.5% talk.politics.theory 33 580 43 8% 12 36.1 22 0.32 0.3% rec.arts.int-fiction 34 23000 1719 96% 732 1356.6 31 0.30 11.4% comp.sys.ibm.pc 35 2700 201 88% 77 156.9 28 0.30 1.3% rec.railroad 36 11000 855 98% 301 630.0 27 0.29 5.7% sci.space 37 5500 408 91% 185 316.0 33 0.29 2.7% rec.arts.drwho 38 6900 516 96% 170 376.9 24 0.28 3.4% comp.sys.apple 39 4000 299 88% 105 219.1 26 0.28 2.0% rec.motorcycles 40 4000 295 88% 71 222.4 17 0.28 2.0% talk.religion.misc