Xref: utzoo news.lists:353 news.groups:2104 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 TRAFFIC VOLUME (DEC 87) Message-ID: <12271@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: 2 Jan 88 04:28:38 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 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 21000 1756 87% 1265 2322.9 60 62.00 10.0% soc.singles 2 6500 555 91% 127 2319.5 19 210.00 3.1% comp.mail.maps 3 12000 1003 96% 1241 2279.5 103 120.00 5.7% comp.sys.amiga 4 22000 1896 97% 871 2108.8 39 60.00 10.8% comp.sys.ibm.pc 5 10000 869 96% 52 1847.7 5 120.00 4.9% comp.binaries.mac 6 12000 1041 94% 100 1484.1 8 76.00 5.9% comp.binaries.ibm.pc 7 11000 908 87% 598 1369.6 54 70.00 5.1% soc.women 8 9800 839 88% 771 1364.3 78 79.00 4.8% rec.arts.startrek 9 23000 1999 99% 375 1346.9 16 37.00 11.3% comp.unix.wizards 10 13000 1144 94% 747 1319.1 57 62.00 6.5% rec.arts.sf-lovers 11 20000 1738 98% 858 1304.2 42 41.00 9.9% comp.sys.mac 12 3100 263 86% 491 1278.9 158 230.00 1.5% talk.religion.misc 13 9200 785 86% 1082 1242.1 117 75.00 4.5% talk.bizarre 14 7700 657 94% 690 1187.9 89 94.00 3.7% rec.music.misc 15 3500 297 69% 407 1142.3 116 150.00 1.7% soc.culture.china 16 9300 791 98% 208 1099.1 22 75.00 4.5% comp.os.minix 17 9200 789 98% 497 1082.1 54 74.00 4.5% comp.sys.atari.st 18 11000 939 87% 624 1075.1 56 55.00 5.3% rec.autos 19 5800 496 88% 525 1041.1 90 100.00 2.8% rec.aviation 20 4300 371 94% 451 939.2 104 130.00 2.1% soc.culture.jewish 21 19000 1660 97% 537 929.5 28 31.00 9.4% comp.lang.c 22 7500 642 86% 345 848.2 46 63.00 3.6% talk.politics.misc 23 9200 785 87% 394 838.0 42 51.00 4.5% soc.motss 24 4300 369 94% 270 828.5 62 120.00 2.1% rec.games.frp 25 4800 407 95% 27 809.0 5 100.00 2.3% comp.binaries.amiga 26 19000 1608 98% 15 795.3 0 27.00 9.1% comp.sources.games 27 4700 404 86% 452 755.1 96 90.00 2.3% rec.sport.football 28 12000 991 88% 418 692.2 34 33.00 5.6% rec.audio 29 21000 1790 87% 587 685.1 27 19.00 10.2% rec.humor 30 4900 418 87% 265 667.9 54 77.00 2.4% rec.arts.comics 31 12000 1009 88% 368 666.0 30 32.00 5.7% rec.arts.movies 32 24000 2064 99% 20 655.1 0 17.00 11.7% comp.sources.misc 33 9500 811 96% 185 654.4 19 43.00 4.6% comp.windows.x 34 5800 498 94% 355 586.1 61 61.00 2.8% soc.culture.indian 35 6900 585 97% 305 572.6 44 52.00 3.3% comp.os.vms 36 7500 641 87% 361 561.7 48 42.00 3.6% rec.video 37 1900 163 38% 214 547.1 112 71.00 0.9% talk.politics.mideast 38 15000 1305 96% 208 509.2 13 21.00 7.4% comp.arch 39 6200 527 96% 307 508.7 49 51.00 3.0% comp.sys.apple 40 8400 713 98% 167 492.1 19 37.00 4.0% comp.unix.xenix