Xref: utzoo news.lists:433 news.groups:3138 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 PER-READER COST (MAR 88) Message-ID: <12418@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: 3 Apr 88 03:42:08 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 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 513 90% 430 6347.0 64 5.70 2.8% comp.mail.maps 2 7100 550 87% 1271 3367.8 179 2.80 3.0% talk.politics.misc 3 19000 1468 95% 347 6868.0 18 2.30 7.9% comp.binaries.ibm.pc 4 6500 501 94% 617 1894.2 94 1.90 2.7% rec.games.frp 5 3700 286 94% 515 1125.0 139 1.90 1.5% rec.music.gdead 6 4400 339 86% 381 1333.0 86 1.80 1.8% talk.religion.misc 7 2600 197 86% 288 784.7 110 1.80 1.1% talk.origins 8 6000 462 88% 667 1465.9 111 1.50 2.5% rec.arts.comics 9 2800 216 70% 391 866.8 139 1.50 1.2% talk.politics.mideast 10 2600 197 86% 217 664.9 83 1.50 1.1% talk.politics.theory 11 2300 176 87% 234 599.7 101 1.50 0.9% talk.abortion 12 4900 381 87% 747 1150.7 152 1.40 2.1% rec.sport.basketball 13 1900 147 86% 150 451.4 78 1.40 0.8% soc.religion.christian 14 9900 765 94% 1248 1962.0 126 1.30 4.1% rec.music.misc 15 7000 541 95% 674 1452.0 96 1.30 2.9% soc.culture.indian 16 6400 492 89% 745 1421.3 116 1.30 2.7% rec.aviation 17 4700 365 88% 345 994.9 73 1.30 2.0% soc.culture.china 18 5200 399 94% 340 858.0 65 1.10 2.2% soc.culture.jewish 19 290 22 45% 1 102.7 4 1.10 0.1% rec.mag.fsfnet 20 12000 925 86% 1414 2042.9 117 0.99 5.0% talk.bizarre 21 2300 178 94% 90 353.6 39 0.97 1.0% soc.culture.greek 22 13000 995 97% 74 1886.8 5 0.95 5.4% comp.binaries.mac 23 11000 843 88% 962 1706.3 87 0.93 4.5% rec.arts.startrek 24 3100 238 95% 18 426.9 5 0.88 1.3% rec.mag.otherrealms 25 6800 522 95% 28 920.5 4 0.87 2.8% comp.binaries.amiga 26 14000 1069 88% 917 2021.9 65 0.86 5.8% soc.women 27 4500 343 96% 122 589.3 27 0.85 1.9% comp.sys.atari.8bit 28 2500 194 82% 107 365.0 42 0.81 1.0% rec.arts.anime 29 13000 975 98% 660 1548.9 50 0.79 5.3% comp.sys.atari.st 30 13000 978 88% 995 1682.8 76 0.77 5.3% rec.autos 31 1700 128 93% 5 206.8 3 0.77 0.7% soc.politics.arms-d 32 20000 1504 88% 1582 2558.2 79 0.76 8.1% soc.singles 33 8100 626 97% 441 896.6 54 0.73 3.4% comp.os.vms 34 4000 305 90% 270 437.6 67 0.67 1.6% rec.music.beatles 35 7800 604 97% 478 792.3 61 0.66 3.3% comp.sys.apple 36 4500 345 88% 278 480.7 61 0.64 1.9% rec.puzzles 37 3200 249 97% 4 297.8 1 0.61 1.3% comp.org.fidonet 38 21000 1652 98% 1045 1905.7 49 0.60 8.9% comp.lang.c 39 5200 403 87% 317 527.9 60 0.60 2.2% rec.sport.baseball 40 9300 714 89% 238 876.1 25 0.57 3.9% misc.headlines