Xref: utzoo news.lists:399 news.groups:2670 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 (FEB 88) Message-ID: <12357@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: 1 Mar 88 08:47:15 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 18000 1600 98% 74 3721.2 4 1.40 8.4% comp.sources.games 2 15000 1330 95% 170 3289.9 11 1.50 7.0% comp.binaries.ibm.pc 3 13000 1128 97% 1591 3010.1 122 1.60 5.9% comp.sys.amiga 4 13000 1179 94% 1125 2970.0 86 1.50 6.2% rec.arts.sf-lovers 5 7100 632 85% 1187 2846.7 167 2.40 3.3% talk.politics.misc 6 20000 1736 86% 1521 2837.1 76 0.87 9.1% soc.singles 7 6700 597 90% 137 2652.0 20 2.50 3.1% comp.mail.maps 8 21000 1903 98% 1715 2613.6 81 0.87 10.0% comp.sys.mac 9 25000 2246 97% 1150 2388.8 46 0.66 11.8% comp.sys.ibm.pc 10 11000 980 84% 1840 2215.3 167 1.20 5.1% talk.bizarre 11 20000 1801 98% 1200 1901.5 60 0.66 9.4% comp.lang.c 12 22000 1986 87% 1041 1742.3 47 0.49 10.4% rec.humor 13 10000 930 97% 58 1630.6 5 1.10 4.9% comp.binaries.mac 14 11000 963 87% 831 1570.6 75 0.88 5.0% rec.arts.startrek 15 12000 1065 86% 687 1497.7 57 0.77 5.6% soc.women 16 8700 769 93% 887 1473.5 101 1.10 4.0% rec.music.misc 17 12000 1089 86% 850 1417.4 70 0.73 5.7% rec.autos 18 3800 333 75% 568 1338.0 149 1.90 1.7% soc.culture.china 19 4100 361 85% 402 1264.5 98 1.90 1.9% talk.religion.misc 20 8400 742 86% 572 1251.4 68 0.92 3.9% soc.motss 21 24000 2165 98% 48 1217.8 2 0.36 11.3% comp.sources.misc 22 5900 526 93% 658 1177.5 111 1.30 2.8% soc.culture.indian 23 6400 568 93% 278 1081.1 43 1.10 3.0% rec.music.synth 24 8000 711 89% 301 1071.1 37 0.85 3.7% misc.headlines 25 9600 855 89% 335 1066.2 34 0.71 4.5% misc.legal 26 5300 468 95% 24 1009.3 4 1.30 2.5% comp.binaries.amiga 27 6300 558 87% 568 998.5 90 0.99 2.9% rec.aviation 28 2200 199 52% 398 980.3 181 1.70 1.0% talk.politics.mideast 29 12000 1085 87% 641 955.0 53 0.50 5.7% rec.arts.movies 30 6700 598 97% 451 933.9 67 0.97 3.1% comp.os.vms 31 5300 468 86% 587 905.5 110 1.00 2.5% rec.sport.football 32 9600 851 98% 480 885.6 50 0.65 4.5% comp.sys.atari.st 33 5000 441 93% 372 871.1 74 1.20 2.3% soc.culture.jewish 34 19000 1687 98% 501 749.6 26 0.28 8.8% comp.unix.questions 35 12000 1034 98% 425 749.0 35 0.44 5.4% sci.space 36 12000 1028 98% 380 737.4 31 0.43 5.4% sci.med 37 12000 1024 86% 507 727.1 42 0.37 5.4% rec.audio 38 8200 723 89% 394 706.4 48 0.54 3.8% misc.kids 39 5200 465 93% 310 685.3 59 0.88 2.4% rec.games.frp 40 6500 575 97% 455 653.4 70 0.70 3.0% comp.sys.apple