Xref: utzoo news.lists:401 news.groups:2672 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 (FEB 88) Message-ID: <12356@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: 1 Mar 88 08:47:03 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 22000 1953 99% 344 528.6 15 0.17 10.2% comp.unix.wizards 2 21000 1866 99% 88 157.2 4 0.05 9.8% comp.sources.d 3 19000 1644 99% 271 428.9 14 0.16 8.6% news.groups 4 19000 1640 99% 320 310.9 16 0.12 8.6% comp.sources.wanted 5 15000 1328 99% 37 67.5 2 0.03 7.0% news.misc 6 14000 1246 99% 7 8.4 0 0.00 6.5% comp.dcom.lans.hyperchannel 7 14000 1235 99% 105 223.8 7 0.11 6.5% news.admin 8 13000 1173 99% 52 75.4 4 0.04 6.1% comp.mail.uucp 9 12000 1041 99% 37 60.2 3 0.04 5.5% comp.mail.misc 10 11000 1003 99% 205 380.4 18 0.24 5.3% comp.dcom.modems 11 11000 944 99% 41 78.8 3 0.05 4.9% news.sysadmin 12 10000 925 99% 101 347.7 10 0.25 4.8% comp.text 13 10000 887 99% 122 209.9 12 0.15 4.6% comp.lang.c++ 14 9800 872 99% 18 20.2 1 0.01 4.6% news.config 15 9500 846 99% 38 105.5 4 0.08 4.4% comp.bugs.4bsd 16 9300 823 99% 38 51.3 4 0.04 4.3% news.software.b 17 8100 718 99% 67 144.8 8 0.13 3.8% comp.cog-eng 18 8000 705 99% 1 0.9 0 0.00 3.7% comp.bugs.misc 19 37000 3244 98% 17 131.7 0 0.02 17.0% news.announce.conferences 20 24000 2165 98% 48 1217.8 2 0.36 11.3% comp.sources.misc 21 22000 1961 98% 131 149.9 5 0.05 10.3% misc.wanted 22 21000 1903 98% 1715 2613.6 81 0.87 10.0% comp.sys.mac 23 20000 1801 98% 1200 1901.5 60 0.66 9.4% comp.lang.c 24 19000 1687 98% 501 749.6 26 0.28 8.8% comp.unix.questions 25 18000 1600 98% 74 3721.2 4 1.40 8.4% comp.sources.games 26 17000 1506 98% 74 455.7 4 0.19 7.9% comp.sources.bugs 27 16000 1381 98% 8 247.7 0 0.11 7.2% comp.sources.unix 28 14000 1253 98% 5 12.3 0 0.01 6.6% comp.newprod 29 13000 1169 98% 27 40.7 2 0.02 6.1% comp.unix 30 12000 1086 98% 304 554.7 25 0.32 5.7% comp.emacs 31 12000 1034 98% 425 749.0 35 0.44 5.4% sci.space 32 12000 1028 98% 380 737.4 31 0.43 5.4% sci.med 33 12000 1024 98% 15 268.5 1 0.16 5.4% comp.risks 34 11000 964 98% 107 164.3 9 0.10 5.1% comp.databases 35 10000 909 98% 17 159.7 1 0.11 4.8% news.lists 36 10000 893 98% 290 454.8 29 0.32 4.7% comp.protocols.tcp-ip 37 9600 851 98% 480 885.6 50 0.65 4.5% comp.sys.atari.st 38 9500 838 98% 27 120.9 2 0.09 4.4% comp.os.research 39 9300 827 98% 182 274.6 19 0.21 4.3% sci.math 40 8900 787 98% 110 201.2 12 0.16 4.1% comp.ai.digest