Xref: utzoo news.lists:400 news.groups:2671 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 (FEB 88) Message-ID: <12355@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: 1 Mar 88 08:46:54 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 6700 597 90% 137 2652.0 20 2.50 3.1% comp.mail.maps 2 7100 632 85% 1187 2846.7 167 2.40 3.3% talk.politics.misc 3 4100 361 85% 402 1264.5 98 1.90 1.9% talk.religion.misc 4 3800 333 75% 568 1338.0 149 1.90 1.7% soc.culture.china 5 2200 199 52% 398 980.3 181 1.70 1.0% talk.politics.mideast 6 13000 1128 97% 1591 3010.1 122 1.60 5.9% comp.sys.amiga 7 2400 217 85% 212 644.4 88 1.60 1.1% talk.abortion 8 15000 1330 95% 170 3289.9 11 1.50 7.0% comp.binaries.ibm.pc 9 13000 1179 94% 1125 2970.0 86 1.50 6.2% rec.arts.sf-lovers 10 18000 1600 98% 74 3721.2 4 1.40 8.4% comp.sources.games 11 5900 526 93% 658 1177.5 111 1.30 2.8% soc.culture.indian 12 5300 468 95% 24 1009.3 4 1.30 2.5% comp.binaries.amiga 13 11000 980 84% 1840 2215.3 167 1.20 5.1% talk.bizarre 14 5000 441 93% 372 871.1 74 1.20 2.3% soc.culture.jewish 15 10000 930 97% 58 1630.6 5 1.10 4.9% comp.binaries.mac 16 8700 769 93% 887 1473.5 101 1.10 4.0% rec.music.misc 17 6400 568 93% 278 1081.1 43 1.10 3.0% rec.music.synth 18 5300 468 86% 587 905.5 110 1.00 2.5% rec.sport.football 19 6300 558 87% 568 998.5 90 0.99 2.9% rec.aviation 20 6700 598 97% 451 933.9 67 0.97 3.1% comp.os.vms 21 8400 742 86% 572 1251.4 68 0.92 3.9% soc.motss 22 1500 133 91% 8 212.9 5 0.92 0.7% soc.politics.arms-d 23 11000 963 87% 831 1570.6 75 0.88 5.0% rec.arts.startrek 24 5200 465 93% 310 685.3 59 0.88 2.4% rec.games.frp 25 21000 1903 98% 1715 2613.6 81 0.87 10.0% comp.sys.mac 26 20000 1736 86% 1521 2837.1 76 0.87 9.1% soc.singles 27 1600 144 87% 137 223.0 85 0.87 0.8% misc.handicap 28 8000 711 89% 301 1071.1 37 0.85 3.7% misc.headlines 29 360 32 41% 1 104.5 3 0.85 0.2% rec.mag.fsfnet 30 2900 256 92% 58 372.0 20 0.84 1.3% comp.sys.dec.micro 31 4600 405 84% 231 603.8 50 0.78 2.1% talk.religion.newage 32 1900 171 84% 82 244.6 43 0.78 0.9% talk.politics.theory 33 12000 1065 86% 687 1497.7 57 0.77 5.6% soc.women 34 5800 517 95% 325 639.7 56 0.74 2.7% rec.ham-radio 35 12000 1089 86% 850 1417.4 70 0.73 5.7% rec.autos 36 9600 855 89% 335 1066.2 34 0.71 4.5% misc.legal 37 6500 575 97% 455 653.4 70 0.70 3.0% comp.sys.apple 38 4100 367 88% 288 452.8 70 0.69 1.9% rec.music.beatles 39 2700 242 86% 138 299.6 51 0.68 1.3% rec.railroad 40 2300 207 36% 192 597.0 83 0.67 1.1% talk.politics.soviet