Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!necntc!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!decvax!decwrl!reid From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups Subject: TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY (SEP 87) Message-ID: <11724@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: Thu, 1-Oct-87 08:49:39 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.11724 Posted: Thu Oct 1 08:49:39 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 5-Oct-87 04:23:56 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:252 news.groups:1608 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 36000 2683 97% 4 16.7 0 0.00 16.8% news.announce.conferences 2 28000 2094 98% 84 3481.4 3 0.64 13.1% comp.sources.unix 3 28000 2086 90% 251 357.4 8 0.07 13.1% misc.consumers.house 4 25000 1833 98% 27 702.8 1 0.14 11.5% comp.sources.misc 5 24000 1776 93% 75 170.0 3 0.04 11.1% misc.jobs.offered 6 23000 1738 96% 927 2393.0 40 0.53 10.9% comp.sys.ibm.pc 7 23000 1678 89% 485 615.4 21 0.14 10.5% rec.humor 8 22000 1620 99% 320 524.3 14 0.12 10.2% comp.unix.wizards 9 21000 1559 89% 111 114.6 5 0.03 9.8% misc.forsale 10 21000 1538 99% 232 225.2 11 0.06 9.7% comp.sources.wanted 11 21000 1531 99% 84 152.0 4 0.04 9.6% comp.sources.d 12 20000 1492 97% 310 537.4 15 0.14 9.4% comp.unix.questions 13 20000 1489 97% 431 800.7 21 0.21 9.3% comp.lang.c 14 20000 1468 99% 87 161.1 4 0.04 9.2% news.groups 15 20000 1453 88% 1381 2057.7 69 0.53 9.1% soc.singles 16 19000 1422 98% 5 281.1 0 0.08 8.9% comp.sources.games 17 19000 1419 98% 1097 2512.6 57 0.68 8.9% comp.sys.mac 18 19000 1415 98% 71 126.6 3 0.03 8.9% comp.sources.bugs 19 18000 1369 98% 51 48.3 2 0.01 8.6% misc.wanted 20 18000 1352 60% 21 43.3 1 0.01 8.5% rec.humor.funny 21 18000 1332 96% 107 167.0 5 0.05 8.4% comp.misc 22 17000 1228 98% 184 331.8 10 0.10 7.7% sci.med 23 16000 1223 96% 364 826.9 22 0.27 7.7% comp.arch 24 16000 1213 96% 72 93.6 4 0.03 7.6% comp.graphics 25 16000 1175 97% 12 50.6 0 0.02 7.4% comp.newprod 26 15000 1143 99% 35 78.0 2 0.03 7.2% news.misc 27 15000 1135 95% 755 1466.3 50 0.50 7.1% rec.arts.sf-lovers 28 15000 1133 94% 100 153.0 6 0.05 7.1% comp.ai 29 15000 1083 99% 4 14.2 0 0.00 6.8% comp.bugs.4bsd.ucb-fixes 30 14000 1075 93% 124 242.7 8 0.09 6.7% misc.jobs.misc 31 14000 1071 99% 64 141.8 4 0.05 6.7% news.admin 32 14000 1048 97% 7 64.0 0 0.02 6.6% news.announce.newusers 33 14000 1028 95% 224 297.5 16 0.11 6.5% comp.windows.x 34 14000 1006 97% 12 34.0 0 0.01 6.3% comp.unix 35 14000 1006 97% 4 8.7 0 0.00 6.3% comp.compilers 36 13000 975 99% 25 26.8 1 0.01 6.1% comp.mail.uucp 37 13000 972 91% 437 589.9 33 0.23 6.1% rec.arts.movies 38 13000 968 96% 34 60.1 2 0.02 6.1% misc.misc 39 13000 966 99% 68 97.3 5 0.04 6.1% comp.text 40 13000 953 99% 178 375.3 13 0.15 6In gies ice 12