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 PROPAGATION (OCT 87) Message-ID: <12040@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: Sun, 1-Nov-87 11:16:33 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.12040 Posted: Sun Nov 1 11:16:33 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 5-Nov-87 19:45:05 EST Organization: DEC Western Research Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif., USA Lines: 54 Approved: reid@decwrl.dec.com Xref: mnetor news.lists:287 news.groups:1853 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 23000 1808 99% 444 695.6 19 0.18 10.8% comp.unix.wizards 2 20000 1611 99% 141 251.3 7 0.07 9.6% news.groups 3 20000 1602 99% 184 163.8 9 0.05 9.5% comp.sources.wanted 4 20000 1595 99% 171 342.7 8 0.10 9.5% comp.sources.d 5 17000 1354 99% 38 73.0 2 0.03 8.1% news.misc 6 16000 1231 99% 147 372.6 9 0.14 7.3% news.admin 7 13000 1057 99% 67 123.3 5 0.06 6.3% comp.mail.uucp 8 12000 954 99% 78 105.0 6 0.05 5.7% comp.mail.misc 9 12000 938 99% 170 323.5 14 0.16 5.6% comp.emacs 10 12000 911 99% 1 1.7 0 0.00 5.4% comp.dcom.lans.hyperchannel 11 11000 897 99% 78 111.6 7 0.06 5.3% comp.text 12 11000 857 99% 142 232.8 12 0.12 5.1% comp.dcom.modems 13 10000 827 99% 14 16.1 1 0.01 4.9% news.sysadmin 14 10000 826 99% 17 126.2 1 0.07 4.9% news.lists 15 10000 801 99% 54 110.0 5 0.06 4.8% comp.lang.c++ 16 10000 791 99% 17 52.8 1 0.03 4.7% comp.bugs.4bsd 17 9900 783 99% 10 7.4 1 0.00 4.7% news.config 18 9200 727 99% 51 151.8 5 0.10 4.3% news.software.b 19 7000 549 99% 21 23.8 3 0.02 3.3% comp.cog-eng 20 34000 2715 98% 34 144.3 1 0.02 16.2% news.announce.conferences 21 31000 2453 98% 68 2667.2 2 0.51 14.6% comp.sources.unix 22 24000 1920 98% 38 1016.5 1 0.25 11.4% comp.sources.misc 23 21000 1642 98% 1427 2124.3 67 0.60 9.8% comp.sys.mac 24 17000 1375 98% 111 121.6 6 0.04 8.2% misc.wanted 25 17000 1374 98% 15 734.9 0 0.25 8.2% comp.sources.games 26 16000 1233 98% 120 209.7 7 0.08 7.3% sci.med 27 12000 947 98% 267 483.1 22 0.24 5.6% sci.space 28 12000 935 98% 141 294.9 11 0.14 5.6% comp.os.minix 29 10000 805 98% 32 56.3 3 0.03 4.8% comp.databases 30 9400 739 98% 11 10.9 1 0.01 4.4% comp.org.usenix 31 9200 729 98% 108 215.9 11 0.14 4.3% sci.math 32 9200 727 98% 57 163.8 6 0.10 4.3% sci.astro 33 9100 716 98% 32 55.4 3 0.04 4.3% sci.space.shuttle 34 8700 684 98% 27 34.4 3 0.02 4.1% comp.bugs.sys5 35 8100 642 98% 137 236.8 16 0.17 3.8% comp.unix.xenix 36 7900 621 98% 62 277.5 7 0.21 3.7% comp.lang.prolog 37 6100 479 98% 32 93.0 5 0.09 2.9% comp.lang.ada 38 5300 419 98% 1 1.7 0 0.00 2.5% sci.math.symbolic 39 4700 368 98% 8 12.9 1 0.02 2.2% comp.sys.nsc.32k 40 4500 357 98% 5 8.8 1 0.01 2.1% sci.math.stat