Xref: utzoo news.lists:351 news.groups:2102 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 PER-READER COST (DEC 87) Message-ID: <12269@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: 2 Jan 88 04:28:20 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 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 3100 263 86% 491 1278.9 158 230.00 1.5% talk.religion.misc 2 6500 555 91% 127 2319.5 19 210.00 3.1% comp.mail.maps 3 3500 297 69% 407 1142.3 116 150.00 1.7% soc.culture.china 4 4300 371 94% 451 939.2 104 130.00 2.1% soc.culture.jewish 5 12000 1003 96% 1241 2279.5 103 120.00 5.7% comp.sys.amiga 6 10000 869 96% 52 1847.7 5 120.00 4.9% comp.binaries.mac 7 4300 369 94% 270 828.5 62 120.00 2.1% rec.games.frp 8 5800 496 88% 525 1041.1 90 100.00 2.8% rec.aviation 9 4800 407 95% 27 809.0 5 100.00 2.3% comp.binaries.amiga 10 7700 657 94% 690 1187.9 89 94.00 3.7% rec.music.misc 11 4700 404 86% 452 755.1 96 90.00 2.3% rec.sport.football 12 9800 839 88% 771 1364.3 78 79.00 4.8% rec.arts.startrek 13 4900 418 87% 265 667.9 54 77.00 2.4% rec.arts.comics 14 12000 1041 94% 100 1484.1 8 76.00 5.9% comp.binaries.ibm.pc 15 9300 791 98% 208 1099.1 22 75.00 4.5% comp.os.minix 16 9200 785 86% 1082 1242.1 117 75.00 4.5% talk.bizarre 17 9200 789 98% 497 1082.1 54 74.00 4.5% comp.sys.atari.st 18 1900 163 38% 214 547.1 112 71.00 0.9% talk.politics.mideast 19 11000 908 87% 598 1369.6 54 70.00 5.1% soc.women 20 2000 167 85% 78 254.1 39 70.00 0.9% talk.politics.theory 21 7500 642 86% 345 848.2 46 63.00 3.6% talk.politics.misc 22 21000 1756 87% 1265 2322.9 60 62.00 10.0% soc.singles 23 13000 1144 94% 747 1319.1 57 62.00 6.5% rec.arts.sf-lovers 24 4800 412 95% 270 481.7 56 62.00 2.3% rec.ham-radio 25 5800 498 94% 355 586.1 61 61.00 2.8% soc.culture.indian 26 22000 1896 97% 871 2108.8 39 60.00 10.8% comp.sys.ibm.pc 27 11000 939 87% 624 1075.1 56 55.00 5.3% rec.autos 28 480 41 40% 1 100.1 2 55.00 0.2% rec.mag.fsfnet 29 3800 321 87% 242 368.2 63 54.00 1.8% rec.sport.basketball 30 6900 585 97% 305 572.6 44 52.00 3.3% comp.os.vms 31 2200 189 66% 67 265.3 30 52.00 1.1% rec.arts.anime 32 9200 785 87% 394 838.0 42 51.00 4.5% soc.motss 33 6200 527 96% 307 508.7 49 51.00 3.0% comp.sys.apple 34 5600 480 95% 247 459.7 44 51.00 2.7% rec.music.classical 35 5500 472 94% 324 455.5 58 50.00 2.7% rec.music.gdead 36 1500 132 86% 45 136.2 30 50.00 0.7% talk.philosophy.misc 37 4800 407 84% 174 424.4 36 48.00 2.3% talk.religion.newage 38 2300 195 97% 2 173.7 1 47.00 1.1% comp.org.fidonet 39 3200 277 88% 141 251.1 44 45.00 1.6% rec.music.beatles 40 2500 214 87% 114 196.2 45 44.00 1.2% rec.railroad