Xref: utzoo news.lists:432 news.groups:3137 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att-cb!att-ih!pacbell!ames!amdcad!decwrl!reid From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups Subject: TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY (MAR 88) Message-ID: <12417@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: 3 Apr 88 03:41:57 GMT Sender: reid@decwrl.DEC.COM Organization: DEC Western Research Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif., USA Lines: 54 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 41000 3176 99% 32 159.2 0 0.03 17.1% news.announce.conferences 2 32000 2453 89% 198 327.9 6 0.06 13.2% misc.consumers.house 3 32000 2447 95% 152 292.8 4 0.06 13.2% misc.jobs.offered 4 31000 2405 99% 17 551.8 0 0.12 13.0% comp.sources.unix 5 31000 2372 85% 44 65.7 1 0.01 12.8% rec.humor.funny 6 31000 2356 97% 1042 1593.4 33 0.34 12.7% comp.sys.ibm.pc 7 27000 2048 99% 12 300.3 0 0.07 11.1% comp.sources.misc 8 25000 1906 88% 861 1131.6 34 0.27 10.3% rec.humor 9 24000 1873 99% 57 134.9 2 0.04 10.1% comp.sources.d 10 23000 1780 98% 1127 1824.8 49 0.52 9.6% comp.sys.mac 11 22000 1682 99% 602 1015.2 27 0.31 9.1% comp.unix.wizards 12 21000 1652 98% 1045 1905.7 49 0.60 8.9% comp.lang.c 13 21000 1637 97% 168 306.2 8 0.10 8.8% comp.sys.amiga.tech 14 21000 1634 89% 210 251.1 10 0.07 8.8% misc.forsale 15 21000 1623 98% 370 505.8 17 0.16 8.8% comp.unix.questions 16 21000 1587 97% 125 302.6 5 0.09 8.6% comp.misc 17 20000 1543 99% 344 880.7 17 0.29 8.3% news.groups 18 20000 1530 98% 4 167.7 0 0.06 8.3% comp.sources.games 19 20000 1504 88% 1582 2558.2 79 0.76 8.1% soc.singles 20 19000 1501 98% 147 201.4 7 0.07 8.1% misc.wanted 21 19000 1485 99% 195 264.1 10 0.09 8.0% comp.sources.wanted 22 19000 1468 95% 347 6868.0 18 2.30 7.9% comp.binaries.ibm.pc 23 19000 1460 97% 224 565.1 11 0.19 7.9% comp.graphics 24 18000 1367 97% 322 690.6 17 0.25 7.4% comp.arch 25 17000 1345 99% 37 75.4 2 0.03 7.3% comp.sources.bugs 26 17000 1303 95% 67 111.4 3 0.04 7.0% misc.jobs.misc 27 16000 1258 96% 65 128.2 4 0.05 6.8% comp.ai 28 16000 1232 87% 57 67.3 3 0.02 6.6% rec.nude 29 15000 1160 98% 115 281.6 7 0.12 6.3% news.admin 30 15000 1154 99% 58 131.2 3 0.06 6.2% news.misc 31 15000 1139 97% 195 296.3 13 0.13 6.1% misc.misc 32 15000 1138 72% 14 300.3 0 0.10 6.1% alt.sources 33 15000 1129 99% 91 180.0 6 0.08 6.1% comp.mail.uucp 34 14000 1069 88% 917 2021.9 65 0.86 5.8% soc.women 35 14000 1046 98% 2 11.9 0 0.01 5.6% news.announce.important 36 13000 1030 97% 24 44.6 1 0.02 5.6% comp.sys.misc 37 13000 1027 98% 197 413.1 15 0.21 5.5% comp.emacs 38 13000 1027 97% 317 738.1 24 0.37 5.5% sci.space 39 13000 997 98% 10 242.4 0 0.12 5.4% comp.risks 40 13000 997 89% 531 768.5 40 0.35 5.4% rec.arts.movies