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 TRAFFIC VOLUME (AUG 87) Message-ID: <11582@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: Tue, 1-Sep-87 07:37:31 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.11582 Posted: Tue Sep 1 07:37:31 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Sep-87 02:54:11 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:229 news.groups:1446 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 12000 887 88% 961 2063.6 80 0.88 5.9% soc.women 2 24000 1774 98% 55 1873.0 2 0.40 11.8% comp.sources.misc 3 19000 1393 88% 981 1694.3 51 0.45 9.3% soc.singles 4 23000 1690 99% 38 1532.6 1 0.34 11.2% comp.sources.unix 5 9300 692 89% 382 1427.9 41 0.78 4.6% rec.arts.startrek 6 6600 490 88% 502 1382.2 76 1.10 3.3% talk.politics.misc 7 23000 1719 96% 732 1356.6 31 0.30 11.4% comp.sys.ibm.pc 8 11000 838 96% 624 1325.7 56 0.61 5.6% comp.sys.amiga 9 17000 1293 98% 811 1221.9 47 0.37 8.6% comp.sys.mac 10 5000 369 86% 300 1106.7 60 1.10 2.5% talk.religion.newage 11 20000 1457 97% 605 1067.6 30 0.27 9.7% comp.lang.c 12 4900 364 89% 588 1042.5 120 1.10 2.4% rec.aviation 13 8700 648 95% 662 986.3 76 0.58 4.3% rec.music.misc 14 7900 590 73% 465 922.9 58 0.59 3.9% soc.men 15 6400 477 89% 334 920.0 52 0.73 3.2% rec.arts.comics 16 11000 806 88% 490 764.4 44 0.35 5.4% rec.autos 17 12000 899 88% 618 753.2 51 0.32 6.0% talk.bizarre 18 9600 717 96% 47 744.5 4 0.39 4.8% comp.binaries.mac 19 9000 669 97% 252 740.5 28 0.42 4.5% comp.os.vms 20 13000 990 91% 455 693.9 35 0.27 6.6% rec.arts.movies 21 13000 941 81% 12 649.9 0 0.25 6.3% comp.binaries.ibm.pc 22 11000 855 98% 301 630.0 27 0.29 5.7% sci.space 23 21000 1566 99% 372 605.7 17 0.15 10.4% comp.unix.wizards 24 1700 123 97% 15 601.4 9 1.80 0.8% comp.doc 25 4600 339 94% 240 590.0 52 0.65 2.3% soc.culture.jewish 26 15000 1145 96% 287 555.4 19 0.19 7.6% comp.arch 27 19000 1400 97% 337 543.3 17 0.15 9.3% comp.unix.questions 28 14000 1046 95% 264 504.7 18 0.18 7.0% rec.arts.sf-lovers 29 23000 1731 89% 385 489.7 16 0.11 11.5% rec.humor 30 5600 417 94% 210 459.3 37 0.42 2.8% soc.culture.indian 31 4400 326 94% 300 458.2 68 0.53 2.2% rec.music.gdead 32 12000 862 89% 270 454.5 22 0.19 5.7% rec.audio 33 12000 857 95% 118 444.8 9 0.19 5.7% comp.windows.x 34 3000 224 87% 117 436.8 39 0.74 1.5% talk.origins 35 4600 346 88% 301 435.4 65 0.48 2.3% rec.sport.baseball 36 5100 379 94% 257 428.6 50 0.43 2.5% rec.ham-radio 37 8000 594 89% 217 425.4 27 0.27 4.0% misc.kids 38 5100 383 98% 190 400.7 37 0.40 2.5% comp.lang.ada 39 5300 397 88% 262 398.3 49 0.38 2.6% rec.bicycles 40 14000 1061 99% 172 395.0 12 0.14 7.1% comp.emacs