Xref: utzoo news.lists:352 news.groups:2103 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 PROPAGATION (DEC 87) Message-ID: <12270@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: 2 Jan 88 04:28:28 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 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 24000 2064 99% 20 655.1 0 17.00 11.7% comp.sources.misc 2 23000 1999 99% 375 1346.9 16 37.00 11.3% comp.unix.wizards 3 21000 1800 99% 125 268.2 5 8.20 10.2% comp.sources.d 4 21000 1785 99% 110 179.1 5 5.40 10.1% news.groups 5 19000 1620 99% 227 245.5 11 8.30 9.2% comp.sources.wanted 6 15000 1261 99% 48 76.5 3 3.30 7.2% news.misc 7 14000 1218 99% 47 83.8 3 3.80 6.9% comp.mail.uucp 8 14000 1171 99% 55 133.1 3 6.10 6.6% news.admin 9 13000 1121 99% 2 4.2 0 0.21 6.4% comp.dcom.lans.hyperchannel 10 13000 1110 99% 67 116.7 5 5.70 6.3% comp.mail.misc 11 11000 901 99% 70 365.0 6 21.00 5.1% comp.text 12 10000 862 99% 18 27.1 1 1.70 4.9% news.config 13 9900 843 99% 20 32.8 2 2.10 4.8% news.sysadmin 14 7200 615 99% 20 34.8 2 3.10 3.5% comp.cog-eng 15 6300 536 99% 8 36.6 1 3.70 3.0% comp.mail.headers 16 34000 2887 98% 14 46.0 0 0.86 16.4% news.announce.conferences 17 20000 1738 98% 858 1304.2 42 41.00 9.9% comp.sys.mac 18 20000 1721 98% 105 106.9 5 3.40 9.8% misc.wanted 19 19000 1608 98% 15 795.3 0 27.00 9.1% comp.sources.games 20 18000 1520 98% 118 361.2 6 13.00 8.6% comp.sources.bugs 21 16000 1398 98% 17 42.8 1 1.70 7.9% comp.newprod 22 15000 1251 98% 268 422.2 17 18.00 7.1% sci.med 23 12000 1051 98% 8 15.3 0 0.81 6.0% comp.unix 24 12000 1006 98% 1 8.9 0 0.47 5.7% comp.bugs.4bsd.ucb-fixes 25 12000 987 98% 122 267.2 10 14.00 5.6% comp.emacs 26 11000 926 98% 20 430.7 1 25.00 5.3% comp.risks 27 11000 903 98% 25 31.2 2 1.80 5.1% comp.databases 28 10000 875 98% 152 234.7 15 15.00 5.0% comp.dcom.modems 29 10000 870 98% 5 98.7 0 6.30 4.9% news.lists 30 9600 818 98% 234 384.0 24 25.00 4.6% comp.protocols.tcp-ip 31 9500 808 98% 88 148.2 9 9.90 4.6% news.software.b 32 9300 791 98% 208 1099.1 22 75.00 4.5% comp.os.minix 33 9200 789 98% 497 1082.1 54 74.00 4.5% comp.sys.atari.st 34 9100 775 98% 88 155.9 9 11.00 4.4% comp.lang.c++ 35 8800 753 98% 145 223.2 16 16.00 4.3% sci.math 36 8700 745 98% 4 104.2 0 7.60 4.2% comp.bugs.misc 37 8400 713 98% 167 492.1 19 37.00 4.0% comp.unix.xenix 38 8100 687 98% 15 25.5 1 2.00 3.9% comp.bugs.sys5 39 8000 680 98% 5 6.7 0 0.54 3.9% comp.org.usenix 40 8000 679 98% 44 84.5 5 6.70 3.9% comp.ai.digest