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 PER-READER COST (OCT 87) Message-ID: <12039@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: Sun, 1-Nov-87 11:16:24 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.12039 Posted: Sun Nov 1 11:16:24 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 5-Nov-87 19:44:28 EST Organization: DEC Western Research Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif., USA Lines: 54 Approved: reid@decwrl.dec.com Xref: mnetor news.lists:286 news.groups:1852 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 11000 845 97% 1351 3092.1 122 1.70 5.0% comp.sys.amiga 2 2300 185 87% 181 592.8 78 1.50 1.1% talk.abortion 3 4000 317 95% 84 715.8 21 1.10 1.9% comp.sys.atari.8bit 4 4500 351 93% 305 749.9 67 0.98 2.1% soc.culture.jewish 5 4700 367 87% 490 769.8 104 0.96 2.2% rec.sport.baseball 6 7200 564 96% 378 1158.8 52 0.95 3.4% comp.os.vms 7 10000 796 88% 902 1543.0 90 0.91 4.7% rec.arts.startrek 8 9800 769 95% 48 1521.9 4 0.91 4.6% comp.binaries.mac 9 12000 914 86% 607 1684.6 50 0.83 5.4% soc.women 10 4800 382 88% 320 675.6 66 0.83 2.3% rec.arts.comics 11 2000 161 86% 95 278.4 47 0.82 1.0% talk.politics.theory 12 1700 137 88% 87 232.6 51 0.81 0.8% misc.handicap 13 6200 492 88% 474 796.2 76 0.76 2.9% rec.aviation 14 9200 729 97% 555 1162.7 60 0.74 4.3% comp.sys.atari.st 15 6300 494 87% 298 771.0 47 0.72 2.9% talk.politics.misc 16 2700 212 62% 14 324.0 5 0.71 1.3% comp.ai.nlang-know-rep 17 5100 400 94% 264 601.9 51 0.70 2.4% rec.ham-radio 18 4900 385 35% 218 545.0 44 0.66 2.3% alt.flame 19 9000 707 89% 414 996.2 46 0.65 4.2% misc.legal 20 4300 337 60% 202 474.6 47 0.65 2.0% comp.society.futures 21 10000 827 87% 745 1061.1 74 0.62 4.9% talk.bizarre 22 4300 340 87% 161 447.7 37 0.61 2.0% talk.religion.misc 23 21000 1642 98% 1427 2124.3 67 0.60 9.8% comp.sys.mac 24 2700 209 95% 10 276.7 3 0.60 1.2% comp.binaries.atari.st 25 6700 526 96% 394 659.0 58 0.58 3.1% comp.sys.apple 26 31000 2453 98% 68 2667.2 2 0.51 14.6% comp.sources.unix 27 22000 1733 96% 882 1898.9 40 0.51 10.3% comp.sys.ibm.pc 28 2500 199 87% 131 209.6 52 0.49 1.2% rec.railroad 29 2000 157 60% 71 166.1 35 0.49 0.9% comp.sys.dec.micro 30 4800 380 95% 142 384.8 29 0.47 2.3% rec.games.frp 31 3200 251 41% 101 256.7 31 0.47 1.5% alt.drugs 32 12000 963 89% 667 913.3 55 0.45 5.7% rec.arts.movies 33 12000 920 88% 562 923.7 46 0.45 5.5% rec.autos 34 5800 457 94% 244 432.5 42 0.44 2.7% soc.culture.indian 35 3000 237 57% 104 224.4 34 0.44 1.4% soc.culture.japan 36 9700 768 87% 338 710.0 34 0.43 4.6% soc.motss 37 2600 204 86% 71 178.1 27 0.40 1.2% talk.origins 38 8900 703 89% 260 596.5 29 0.39 4.2% misc.headlines 39 8000 634 95% 360 532.5 45 0.39 3.8% rec.music.misc 40 2000 159 96% 5 133.7 2 0.39 0.9% comp.sources.atari.st