Xref: utzoo news.lists:404 news.groups:2675 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 POPULARITY (FEB 88) Message-ID: <12354@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: 1 Mar 88 08:46:45 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 POPULARITY 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 37000 3244 98% 17 131.7 0 0.02 17.0% news.announce.conferences 2 29000 2558 89% 181 286.1 6 0.06 13.4% misc.consumers.house 3 26000 2283 94% 151 302.0 5 0.08 12.0% misc.jobs.offered 4 25000 2259 83% 52 105.8 2 0.03 11.8% rec.humor.funny 5 25000 2246 97% 1150 2388.8 46 0.66 11.8% comp.sys.ibm.pc 6 24000 2165 98% 48 1217.8 2 0.36 11.3% comp.sources.misc 7 22000 1986 87% 1041 1742.3 47 0.49 10.4% rec.humor 8 22000 1961 98% 131 149.9 5 0.05 10.3% misc.wanted 9 22000 1953 99% 344 528.6 15 0.17 10.2% comp.unix.wizards 10 21000 1903 98% 1715 2613.6 81 0.87 10.0% comp.sys.mac 11 21000 1866 99% 88 157.2 4 0.05 9.8% comp.sources.d 12 20000 1801 98% 1200 1901.5 60 0.66 9.4% comp.lang.c 13 20000 1786 97% 174 324.4 8 0.11 9.4% comp.misc 14 20000 1736 86% 1521 2837.1 76 0.87 9.1% soc.singles 15 19000 1723 89% 225 253.4 11 0.08 9.0% misc.forsale 16 19000 1687 98% 501 749.6 26 0.28 8.8% comp.unix.questions 17 19000 1644 99% 271 428.9 14 0.16 8.6% news.groups 18 19000 1640 99% 320 310.9 16 0.12 8.6% comp.sources.wanted 19 18000 1600 98% 74 3721.2 4 1.40 8.4% comp.sources.games 20 17000 1506 98% 74 455.7 4 0.19 7.9% comp.sources.bugs 21 17000 1482 97% 178 373.7 10 0.15 7.8% comp.arch 22 16000 1422 97% 184 342.5 11 0.15 7.5% comp.graphics 23 16000 1381 98% 8 247.7 0 0.11 7.2% comp.sources.unix 24 15000 1330 95% 170 3289.9 11 1.50 7.0% comp.binaries.ibm.pc 25 15000 1328 99% 37 67.5 2 0.03 7.0% news.misc 26 15000 1327 95% 101 208.6 6 0.09 7.0% comp.ai 27 14000 1253 98% 5 12.3 0 0.01 6.6% comp.newprod 28 14000 1246 99% 7 8.4 0 0.00 6.5% comp.dcom.lans.hyperchannel 29 14000 1235 99% 105 223.8 7 0.11 6.5% news.admin 30 14000 1211 66% 27 521.6 1 0.18 6.3% alt.sources 31 13000 1196 97% 194 324.7 14 0.17 6.3% misc.misc 32 13000 1193 94% 227 374.7 17 0.19 6.3% misc.jobs.misc 33 13000 1179 94% 1125 2970.0 86 1.50 6.2% rec.arts.sf-lovers 34 13000 1173 99% 52 75.4 4 0.04 6.1% comp.mail.uucp 35 13000 1169 98% 27 40.7 2 0.02 6.1% comp.unix 36 13000 1128 97% 1591 3010.1 122 1.60 5.9% comp.sys.amiga 37 12000 1089 86% 850 1417.4 70 0.73 5.7% rec.autos 38 12000 1088 86% 62 79.6 5 0.04 5.7% rec.nude 39 12000 1086 98% 304 554.7 25 0.32 5.7% comp.emacs 40 12000 1085 87% 641 955.0 53 0.50 5.7% rec.arts.movies