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 PROPAGATION (SEP 87) Message-ID: <11726@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: Thu, 1-Oct-87 08:49:53 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.11726 Posted: Thu Oct 1 08:49:53 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 5-Oct-87 04:26:38 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:254 news.groups:1610 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 22000 1620 99% 320 524.3 14 0.12 10.2% comp.unix.wizards 2 21000 1538 99% 232 225.2 11 0.06 9.7% comp.sources.wanted 3 21000 1531 99% 84 152.0 4 0.04 9.6% comp.sources.d 4 20000 1468 99% 87 161.1 4 0.04 9.2% news.groups 5 15000 1143 99% 35 78.0 2 0.03 7.2% news.misc 6 15000 1083 99% 4 14.2 0 0.00 6.8% comp.bugs.4bsd.ucb-fixes 7 14000 1071 99% 64 141.8 4 0.05 6.7% news.admin 8 13000 975 99% 25 26.8 1 0.01 6.1% comp.mail.uucp 9 13000 966 99% 68 97.3 5 0.04 6.1% comp.text 10 13000 953 99% 178 375.3 13 0.15 6.0% comp.emacs 11 12000 899 99% 51 62.7 4 0.03 5.6% comp.dcom.lans 12 12000 881 99% 68 131.6 5 0.06 5.5% comp.mail.misc 13 12000 869 99% 58 82.8 4 0.04 5.5% comp.dcom.modems 14 11000 788 99% 2 3.4 0 0.00 4.9% news.sysadmin 15 10000 753 99% 18 141.4 1 0.07 4.7% news.lists 16 10000 740 99% 45 80.0 4 0.04 4.6% comp.lang.c++ 17 9800 724 99% 12 21.0 1 0.01 4.5% comp.bugs.misc 18 9700 720 99% 2 3.5 0 0.00 4.5% news.config 19 9000 670 99% 24 141.6 2 0.08 4.2% news.software.b 20 8600 637 99% 141 247.7 16 0.15 4.0% comp.unix.xenix 21 28000 2094 98% 84 3481.4 3 0.64 13.1% comp.sources.unix 22 25000 1833 98% 27 702.8 1 0.14 11.5% comp.sources.misc 23 19000 1422 98% 5 281.1 0 0.08 8.9% comp.sources.games 24 19000 1419 98% 1097 2512.6 57 0.68 8.9% comp.sys.mac 25 19000 1415 98% 71 126.6 3 0.03 8.9% comp.sources.bugs 26 18000 1369 98% 51 48.3 2 0.01 8.6% misc.wanted 27 17000 1228 98% 184 331.8 10 0.10 7.7% sci.med 28 12000 875 98% 147 796.6 12 0.34 5.5% comp.os.minix 29 12000 869 98% 372 686.6 31 0.29 5.5% sci.space 30 11000 808 98% 40 56.9 3 0.03 5.1% comp.databases 31 10000 759 98% 167 244.7 16 0.13 4.8% sci.math 32 10000 746 98% 34 74.7 3 0.04 4.7% sci.astro 33 9900 734 98% 1 3.5 0 0.00 4.6% comp.org.usenix 34 9900 733 98% 58 104.1 5 0.05 4.6% sci.space.shuttle 35 9600 712 98% 32 57.0 3 0.03 4.5% comp.bugs.sys5 36 9500 704 98% 334 960.5 35 0.52 4.4% comp.sys.atari.st 37 8800 650 98% 48 354.4 5 0.21 4.1% comp.lang.prolog 38 6000 448 98% 94 225.7 15 0.19 2.8% comp.lang.ada 39 5800 430 98% 2 5.2 0 0.00 2.7% sci.math.symbolic 40 5200 386 98% 30 58.1 5 0.06 2.4% sci.math.stat