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 PROPAGATION (AUG 87) Message-ID: <11581@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: Tue, 1-Sep-87 07:37:23 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.11581 Posted: Tue Sep 1 07:37:23 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Sep-87 02:52:55 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:228 news.groups:1445 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 23000 1690 99% 38 1532.6 1 0.34 11.2% comp.sources.unix 2 21000 1566 99% 372 605.7 17 0.15 10.4% comp.unix.wizards 3 21000 1547 99% 144 349.6 6 0.08 10.3% comp.sources.d 4 21000 1541 99% 4 106.0 0 0.03 10.3% comp.sources.games 5 19000 1418 99% 65 82.9 3 0.02 9.4% news.groups 6 19000 1392 99% 244 260.3 12 0.07 9.3% comp.sources.wanted 7 15000 1092 99% 7 7.2 0 0.00 7.3% news.misc 8 14000 1064 99% 71 100.5 5 0.04 7.1% comp.text 9 14000 1061 99% 172 395.0 12 0.14 7.1% comp.emacs 10 13000 984 99% 67 107.3 5 0.04 6.5% comp.mail.uucp 11 13000 968 99% 82 162.1 6 0.06 6.4% news.admin 12 12000 863 99% 25 69.7 2 0.03 5.7% comp.mail.misc 13 11000 831 99% 95 178.8 8 0.08 5.5% comp.dcom.lans 14 11000 797 99% 101 260.3 9 0.12 5.3% comp.dcom.modems 15 10000 758 99% 5 10.0 0 0.01 5.0% news.sysadmin 16 9800 729 99% 10 12.9 1 0.01 4.9% news.config 17 9400 697 99% 5 14.3 0 0.01 4.6% news.lists 18 8900 660 99% 35 53.1 4 0.03 4.4% comp.lang.c++ 19 8700 645 99% 11 27.7 1 0.02 4.3% news.software.b 20 32000 2390 98% 18 91.0 0 0.01 15.9% news.announce.conferences 21 24000 1774 98% 55 1873.0 2 0.40 11.8% comp.sources.misc 22 18000 1329 98% 91 199.1 5 0.06 8.8% comp.sources.bugs 23 17000 1293 98% 811 1221.9 47 0.37 8.6% comp.sys.mac 24 16000 1166 98% 0 0.0 0 0.00 7.8% news.announce.important 25 14000 1079 98% 42 127.5 3 0.05 7.2% comp.compilers 26 13000 980 98% 1 1.0 0 0.00 6.5% comp.unix 27 12000 877 98% 107 326.0 8 0.14 5.8% comp.os.minix 28 11000 855 98% 301 630.0 27 0.29 5.7% sci.space 29 11000 818 98% 4 67.0 0 0.03 5.4% comp.risks 30 11000 804 98% 45 125.0 4 0.06 5.4% comp.bugs.4bsd 31 10000 769 98% 38 76.7 3 0.04 5.1% comp.databases 32 10000 741 98% 104 164.8 10 0.08 4.9% sci.math 33 9800 727 98% 5 7.7 0 0.00 4.8% sci.space.shuttle 34 9700 720 98% 122 156.7 12 0.08 4.8% comp.protocols.tcp-ip 35 9600 715 98% 32 45.1 3 0.02 4.8% comp.org.usenix 36 9600 712 98% 38 54.0 4 0.03 4.7% comp.laser-printers 37 9300 691 98% 11 64.1 1 0.04 4.6% comp.std.unix 38 9300 689 98% 108 174.3 11 0.10 4.6% sci.astro 39 9000 672 98% 72 150.7 8 0.09 4.5% comp.ai.digest 40 8900 665 98% 32 52.6 3 0.03 4.4% comp.bugs.sys5