Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!decwrl!reid From: reid@decwrl.DEC.COM (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups Subject: TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY (OCT 87) Message-ID: <12038@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: Sun, 1-Nov-87 11:16:15 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.12038 Posted: Sun Nov 1 11:16:15 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 5-Nov-87 07:50:47 EST Organization: DEC Western Research Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif., USA Lines: 54 Approved: reid@decwrl.dec.com Xref: mnetor news.lists:285 news.groups:1851 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 34000 2715 98% 34 144.3 1 0.02 16.2% news.announce.conferences 2 31000 2453 98% 68 2667.2 2 0.51 14.6% comp.sources.unix 3 28000 2222 89% 291 406.8 10 0.09 13.2% misc.consumers.house 4 25000 1934 94% 88 203.1 3 0.05 11.5% misc.jobs.offered 5 24000 1920 98% 38 1016.5 1 0.25 11.4% comp.sources.misc 6 24000 1878 75% 27 50.8 1 0.01 11.2% rec.humor.funny 7 23000 1808 99% 444 695.6 19 0.18 10.8% comp.unix.wizards 8 22000 1755 88% 507 675.6 23 0.18 10.5% rec.humor 9 22000 1733 96% 882 1898.9 40 0.51 10.3% comp.sys.ibm.pc 10 21000 1680 97% 532 853.7 25 0.24 10.0% comp.lang.c 11 21000 1642 98% 1427 2124.3 67 0.60 9.8% comp.sys.mac 12 20000 1611 99% 141 251.3 7 0.07 9.6% news.groups 13 20000 1602 99% 184 163.8 9 0.05 9.5% comp.sources.wanted 14 20000 1595 99% 171 342.7 8 0.10 9.5% comp.sources.d 15 20000 1575 87% 607 968.2 30 0.29 9.4% soc.singles 16 20000 1572 97% 278 479.0 13 0.14 9.4% comp.unix.questions 17 19000 1500 89% 141 138.6 7 0.04 8.9% misc.forsale 18 18000 1405 97% 55 111.9 3 0.04 8.4% comp.sources.bugs 19 17000 1375 98% 111 121.6 6 0.04 8.2% misc.wanted 20 17000 1374 98% 15 734.9 0 0.25 8.2% comp.sources.games 21 17000 1367 96% 127 169.2 7 0.06 8.1% comp.misc 22 17000 1354 99% 38 73.0 2 0.03 8.1% news.misc 23 17000 1315 96% 235 509.4 13 0.18 7.8% comp.arch 24 16000 1291 97% 11 27.0 0 0.01 7.7% comp.newprod 25 16000 1233 98% 120 209.7 7 0.08 7.3% sci.med 26 16000 1231 99% 147 372.6 9 0.14 7.3% news.admin 27 16000 1223 94% 161 331.9 10 0.12 7.3% comp.ai 28 15000 1217 97% 61 78.3 4 0.03 7.3% comp.graphics 29 15000 1147 97% 12 75.7 0 0.03 6.8% comp.unix 30 14000 1127 95% 558 914.5 39 0.38 6.7% rec.arts.sf-lovers 31 14000 1107 94% 92 164.8 6 0.07 6.6% misc.jobs.misc 32 14000 1068 96% 50 93.5 3 0.04 6.4% misc.misc 33 13000 1057 99% 67 123.3 5 0.06 6.3% comp.mail.uucp 34 12000 963 89% 667 913.3 55 0.45 5.7% rec.arts.movies 35 12000 954 99% 78 105.0 6 0.05 5.7% comp.mail.misc 36 12000 947 98% 267 483.1 22 0.24 5.6% sci.space 37 12000 938 99% 170 323.5 14 0.16 5.6% comp.emacs 38 12000 936 89% 342 494.4 28 0.24 5.6% misc.invest 39 12000 935 98% 141 294.9 11 0.14 5.6% comp.os.minix 40 12000 920 88% 562 923.7 46 0.45 5.5% rec.autos