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 TRAFFIC VOLUME (OCT 87) Message-ID: <12041@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: Sun, 1-Nov-87 11:16:44 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.12041 Posted: Sun Nov 1 11:16:44 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 5-Nov-87 19:45:53 EST Organization: DEC Western Research Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif., USA Lines: 54 Approved: reid@decwrl.dec.com Xref: mnetor news.lists:288 news.groups:1854 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 11000 845 97% 1351 3092.1 122 1.70 5.0% comp.sys.amiga 2 31000 2453 98% 68 2667.2 2 0.51 14.6% comp.sources.unix 3 21000 1642 98% 1427 2124.3 67 0.60 9.8% comp.sys.mac 4 22000 1733 96% 882 1898.9 40 0.51 10.3% comp.sys.ibm.pc 5 12000 914 86% 607 1684.6 50 0.83 5.4% soc.women 6 10000 796 88% 902 1543.0 90 0.91 4.7% rec.arts.startrek 7 9800 769 95% 48 1521.9 4 0.91 4.6% comp.binaries.mac 8 9200 729 97% 555 1162.7 60 0.74 4.3% comp.sys.atari.st 9 7200 564 96% 378 1158.8 52 0.95 3.4% comp.os.vms 10 10000 827 87% 745 1061.1 74 0.62 4.9% talk.bizarre 11 24000 1920 98% 38 1016.5 1 0.25 11.4% comp.sources.misc 12 9000 707 89% 414 996.2 46 0.65 4.2% misc.legal 13 20000 1575 87% 607 968.2 30 0.29 9.4% soc.singles 14 12000 920 88% 562 923.7 46 0.45 5.5% rec.autos 15 14000 1127 95% 558 914.5 39 0.38 6.7% rec.arts.sf-lovers 16 12000 963 89% 667 913.3 55 0.45 5.7% rec.arts.movies 17 21000 1680 97% 532 853.7 25 0.24 10.0% comp.lang.c 18 6200 492 88% 474 796.2 76 0.76 2.9% rec.aviation 19 6300 494 87% 298 771.0 47 0.72 2.9% talk.politics.misc 20 4700 367 87% 490 769.8 104 0.96 2.2% rec.sport.baseball 21 4500 351 93% 305 749.9 67 0.98 2.1% soc.culture.jewish 22 17000 1374 98% 15 734.9 0 0.25 8.2% comp.sources.games 23 4000 317 95% 84 715.8 21 1.10 1.9% comp.sys.atari.8bit 24 9700 768 87% 338 710.0 34 0.43 4.6% soc.motss 25 23000 1808 99% 444 695.6 19 0.18 10.8% comp.unix.wizards 26 22000 1755 88% 507 675.6 23 0.18 10.5% rec.humor 27 4800 382 88% 320 675.6 66 0.83 2.3% rec.arts.comics 28 6700 526 96% 394 659.0 58 0.58 3.1% comp.sys.apple 29 5100 400 94% 264 601.9 51 0.70 2.4% rec.ham-radio 30 8900 703 89% 260 596.5 29 0.39 4.2% misc.headlines 31 2300 185 87% 181 592.8 78 1.50 1.1% talk.abortion 32 4900 385 35% 218 545.0 44 0.66 2.3% alt.flame 33 8000 634 95% 360 532.5 45 0.39 3.8% rec.music.misc 34 17000 1315 96% 235 509.4 13 0.18 7.8% comp.arch 35 10000 796 87% 100 499.4 10 0.29 4.7% rec.travel 36 12000 936 89% 342 494.4 28 0.24 5.6% misc.invest 37 12000 947 98% 267 483.1 22 0.24 5.6% sci.space 38 20000 1572 97% 278 479.0 13 0.14 9.4% comp.unix.questions 39 4300 337 60% 202 474.6 47 0.65 2.0% comp.society.futures 40 11000 876 88% 294 464.5 26 0.25 5.2% rec.audio