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 TRAFFIC VOLUME (SEP 87) Message-ID: <11727@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: Thu, 1-Oct-87 08:50:02 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.11727 Posted: Thu Oct 1 08:50:02 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 5-Oct-87 04:28:28 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:255 news.groups:1611 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 28000 2094 98% 84 3481.4 3 0.64 13.1% comp.sources.unix 2 12000 895 88% 1060 2738.1 88 1.20 5.6% soc.women 3 19000 1419 98% 1097 2512.6 57 0.68 8.9% comp.sys.mac 4 23000 1738 96% 927 2393.0 40 0.53 10.9% comp.sys.ibm.pc 5 3200 239 89% 48 2390.1 15 3.80 1.5% comp.mail.maps 6 11000 821 97% 854 2218.3 77 1.00 5.2% comp.sys.amiga 7 20000 1453 88% 1381 2057.7 69 0.53 9.1% soc.singles 8 15000 1135 95% 755 1466.3 50 0.50 7.1% rec.arts.sf-lovers 9 9800 727 95% 38 1294.5 3 0.68 4.6% comp.binaries.mac 10 7900 584 97% 482 1237.8 61 0.81 3.7% comp.os.vms 11 5000 370 89% 621 1140.3 124 1.20 2.3% rec.aviation 12 6600 490 89% 437 973.9 66 0.76 3.1% rec.arts.comics 13 9500 704 98% 334 960.5 35 0.52 4.4% comp.sys.atari.st 14 4800 358 94% 378 927.6 78 0.99 2.2% soc.culture.jewish 15 12000 876 89% 537 881.3 44 0.38 5.5% rec.autos 16 12000 897 87% 585 841.2 48 0.36 5.6% talk.bizarre 17 16000 1223 96% 364 826.9 22 0.27 7.7% comp.arch 18 4200 308 97% 295 808.3 70 0.99 1.9% comp.mail.elm 19 20000 1489 97% 431 800.7 21 0.21 9.3% comp.lang.c 20 12000 875 98% 147 796.6 12 0.34 5.5% comp.os.minix 21 5600 414 95% 471 739.7 84 0.68 2.6% rec.music.gdead 22 9400 695 89% 415 727.0 44 0.40 4.4% rec.arts.startrek 23 25000 1833 98% 27 702.8 1 0.14 11.5% comp.sources.misc 24 5000 370 88% 375 702.0 75 0.72 2.3% rec.sport.football 25 12000 869 98% 372 686.6 31 0.29 5.5% sci.space 26 9600 711 88% 285 645.0 29 0.35 4.5% soc.motss 27 23000 1678 89% 485 615.4 21 0.14 10.5% rec.humor 28 13000 972 91% 437 589.9 33 0.23 6.1% rec.arts.movies 29 8200 611 80% 284 567.9 34 0.36 3.8% soc.men 30 9300 687 95% 405 559.1 43 0.31 4.3% rec.music.misc 31 8400 622 90% 221 545.1 26 0.33 3.9% misc.legal 32 20000 1492 97% 310 537.4 15 0.14 9.4% comp.unix.questions 33 12000 884 89% 310 527.7 25 0.23 5.5% rec.audio 34 22000 1620 99% 320 524.3 14 0.12 10.2% comp.unix.wizards 35 11000 821 97% 14 521.0 1 0.24 5.2% comp.doc 36 6500 485 96% 195 515.1 30 0.41 3.0% comp.sys.apple 37 7300 543 88% 281 506.7 38 0.36 3.4% rec.pets 38 6700 499 96% 12 501.3 1 0.38 3.1% comp.sources.amiga 39 6500 485 87% 234 499.5 36 0.39 3.0% talk.politics.misc 40 5300 394 95% 230 463.7 43 0.45 2.5% rec.ham-radio