Xref: utzoo news.lists:350 news.groups:2101 Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!pyramid!decwrl!reid From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups Subject: TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY (DEC 87) Message-ID: <12268@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: 2 Jan 88 04:28:12 GMT Sender: reid@decwrl.DEC.COM Organization: DEC Western Research Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif., USA Lines: 53 Approved: reid@decwrl.dec.com 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 2887 98% 14 46.0 0 0.86 16.4% news.announce.conferences 2 26000 2223 89% 138 251.0 5 5.60 12.6% misc.consumers.house 3 25000 2164 84% 40 68.2 1 1.50 12.3% rec.humor.funny 4 24000 2064 99% 20 655.1 0 17.00 11.7% comp.sources.misc 5 23000 2004 93% 70 138.2 3 3.60 11.4% misc.jobs.offered 6 23000 1999 99% 375 1346.9 16 37.00 11.3% comp.unix.wizards 7 22000 1896 97% 871 2108.8 39 60.00 10.8% comp.sys.ibm.pc 8 21000 1800 99% 125 268.2 5 8.20 10.2% comp.sources.d 9 21000 1790 87% 587 685.1 27 19.00 10.2% rec.humor 10 21000 1785 99% 110 179.1 5 5.40 10.1% news.groups 11 21000 1756 87% 1265 2322.9 60 62.00 10.0% soc.singles 12 20000 1738 98% 858 1304.2 42 41.00 9.9% comp.sys.mac 13 20000 1721 98% 105 106.9 5 3.40 9.8% misc.wanted 14 19000 1660 97% 537 929.5 28 31.00 9.4% comp.lang.c 15 19000 1620 99% 227 245.5 11 8.30 9.2% comp.sources.wanted 16 19000 1608 98% 15 795.3 0 27.00 9.1% comp.sources.games 17 18000 1520 98% 118 361.2 6 13.00 8.6% comp.sources.bugs 18 18000 1508 97% 231 374.1 12 13.00 8.6% comp.unix.questions 19 18000 1505 89% 121 134.3 6 4.30 8.5% misc.forsale 20 17000 1466 96% 57 304.7 3 11.00 8.3% comp.misc 21 16000 1398 98% 17 42.8 1 1.70 7.9% comp.newprod 22 15000 1305 96% 208 509.2 13 21.00 7.4% comp.arch 23 15000 1264 97% 92 125.8 6 5.30 7.2% comp.graphics 24 15000 1261 99% 48 76.5 3 3.30 7.2% news.misc 25 15000 1251 98% 268 422.2 17 18.00 7.1% sci.med 26 14000 1218 99% 47 83.8 3 3.80 6.9% comp.mail.uucp 27 14000 1171 99% 55 133.1 3 6.10 6.6% news.admin 28 13000 1144 94% 747 1319.1 57 62.00 6.5% rec.arts.sf-lovers 29 13000 1121 99% 2 4.2 0 0.21 6.4% comp.dcom.lans.hyperchannel 30 13000 1119 93% 34 62.1 2 2.90 6.3% comp.ai 31 13000 1110 99% 67 116.7 5 5.70 6.3% comp.mail.misc 32 13000 1104 96% 105 187.3 8 9.00 6.3% misc.misc 33 12000 1060 94% 71 99.7 5 5.00 6.0% misc.jobs.misc 34 12000 1051 98% 8 15.3 0 0.81 6.0% comp.unix 35 12000 1041 94% 100 1484.1 8 76.00 5.9% comp.binaries.ibm.pc 36 12000 1027 87% 124 189.2 10 8.90 5.8% rec.nude 37 12000 1009 88% 368 666.0 30 32.00 5.7% rec.arts.movies 38 12000 1006 98% 1 8.9 0 0.47 5.7% comp.bugs.4bsd.ucb-fixes 39 12000 1003 96% 1241 2279.5 103 120.00 5.7% comp.sys.amiga 40 12000 995 97% 32 78.0 2 4.10 5.6% comp.compilers