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 PER-READER COST (SEP 87) Message-ID: <11725@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: Thu, 1-Oct-87 08:49:46 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.11725 Posted: Thu Oct 1 08:49:46 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 5-Oct-87 04:25:14 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:253 news.groups:1609 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 3200 239 89% 48 2390.1 15 3.80 1.5% comp.mail.maps 2 12000 895 88% 1060 2738.1 88 1.20 5.6% soc.women 3 5000 370 89% 621 1140.3 124 1.20 2.3% rec.aviation 4 11000 821 97% 854 2218.3 77 1.00 5.2% comp.sys.amiga 5 4800 358 94% 378 927.6 78 0.99 2.2% soc.culture.jewish 6 4200 308 97% 295 808.3 70 0.99 1.9% comp.mail.elm 7 760 56 5% 97 132.8 127 0.90 0.4% alt.cyberpunk 8 7900 584 97% 482 1237.8 61 0.81 3.7% comp.os.vms 9 6600 490 89% 437 973.9 66 0.76 3.1% rec.arts.comics 10 5000 370 88% 375 702.0 75 0.72 2.3% rec.sport.football 11 3100 227 96% 28 421.4 9 0.70 1.4% comp.sys.m6809 12 19000 1419 98% 1097 2512.6 57 0.68 8.9% comp.sys.mac 13 9800 727 95% 38 1294.5 3 0.68 4.6% comp.binaries.mac 14 5600 414 95% 471 739.7 84 0.68 2.6% rec.music.gdead 15 28000 2094 98% 84 3481.4 3 0.64 13.1% comp.sources.unix 16 2300 169 86% 85 280.9 37 0.63 1.1% talk.politics.theory 17 3700 275 89% 160 449.6 43 0.62 1.7% rec.motorcycles 18 2600 193 15% 217 304.4 83 0.60 1.2% alt.flame 19 23000 1738 96% 927 2393.0 40 0.53 10.9% comp.sys.ibm.pc 20 20000 1453 88% 1381 2057.7 69 0.53 9.1% soc.singles 21 9500 704 98% 334 960.5 35 0.52 4.4% comp.sys.atari.st 22 1100 80 26% 100 110.5 90 0.52 0.5% comp.lang.rexx 23 15000 1135 95% 755 1466.3 50 0.50 7.1% rec.arts.sf-lovers 24 4600 342 88% 297 443.1 64 0.50 2.1% rec.sport.baseball 25 2500 188 90% 8 245.0 3 0.50 1.2% soc.politics.arms-d 26 3300 243 97% 4 314.3 1 0.49 1.5% comp.org.fidonet 27 2600 192 88% 94 247.3 36 0.49 1.2% talk.abortion 28 1500 109 23% 78 141.3 52 0.48 0.7% comp.editors 29 2800 210 88% 138 257.8 49 0.47 1.3% rec.railroad 30 4500 337 97% 74 404.2 16 0.46 2.1% comp.os.cpm 31 5300 394 95% 230 463.7 43 0.45 2.5% rec.ham-radio 32 380 28 18% 17 32.3 45 0.44 0.2% rec.equestrian 33 6500 485 96% 195 515.1 30 0.41 3.0% comp.sys.apple 34 3100 230 38% 174 246.0 56 0.41 1.4% rec.music.beatles 35 9400 695 89% 415 727.0 44 0.40 4.4% rec.arts.startrek 36 6500 485 87% 234 499.5 36 0.39 3.0% talk.politics.misc 37 12000 876 89% 537 881.3 44 0.38 5.5% rec.autos 38 6700 499 96% 12 501.3 1 0.38 3.1% comp.sources.amiga 39 3200 241 95% 97 232.7 30 0.37 1.5% rec.music.gaffa 40 12000 897 87% 585 841.2 48 0.36 5.6% talk.bizarre