Xref: utzoo news.lists:434 news.groups:3139 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 PROPAGATION (MAR 88) Message-ID: <12419@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: 3 Apr 88 03:42:20 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 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 41000 3176 99% 32 159.2 0 0.03 17.1% news.announce.conferences 2 31000 2405 99% 17 551.8 0 0.12 13.0% comp.sources.unix 3 27000 2048 99% 12 300.3 0 0.07 11.1% comp.sources.misc 4 24000 1873 99% 57 134.9 2 0.04 10.1% comp.sources.d 5 22000 1682 99% 602 1015.2 27 0.31 9.1% comp.unix.wizards 6 20000 1543 99% 344 880.7 17 0.29 8.3% news.groups 7 19000 1485 99% 195 264.1 10 0.09 8.0% comp.sources.wanted 8 17000 1345 99% 37 75.4 2 0.03 7.3% comp.sources.bugs 9 15000 1154 99% 58 131.2 3 0.06 6.2% news.misc 10 15000 1129 99% 91 180.0 6 0.08 6.1% comp.mail.uucp 11 12000 928 99% 108 194.0 9 0.11 5.0% comp.dcom.lans 12 11000 875 99% 27 32.7 2 0.02 4.7% news.sysadmin 13 11000 841 99% 128 224.4 11 0.14 4.5% news.software.b 14 11000 813 99% 28 28.4 2 0.02 4.4% news.config 15 10000 800 99% 11 10.5 1 0.01 4.3% comp.bugs.misc 16 8900 688 99% 2 3.4 0 0.00 3.7% comp.cog-eng 17 23000 1780 98% 1127 1824.8 49 0.52 9.6% comp.sys.mac 18 21000 1652 98% 1045 1905.7 49 0.60 8.9% comp.lang.c 19 21000 1623 98% 370 505.8 17 0.16 8.8% comp.unix.questions 20 20000 1530 98% 4 167.7 0 0.06 8.3% comp.sources.games 21 19000 1501 98% 147 201.4 7 0.07 8.1% misc.wanted 22 15000 1160 98% 115 281.6 7 0.12 6.3% news.admin 23 14000 1046 98% 2 11.9 0 0.01 5.6% news.announce.important 24 13000 1027 98% 197 413.1 15 0.21 5.5% comp.emacs 25 13000 997 98% 10 242.4 0 0.12 5.4% comp.risks 26 13000 975 98% 660 1548.9 50 0.79 5.3% comp.sys.atari.st 27 13000 972 98% 95 120.4 7 0.06 5.2% comp.text 28 12000 959 98% 101 191.4 8 0.11 5.2% comp.databases 29 12000 918 98% 258 428.6 21 0.24 5.0% sci.math 30 12000 894 98% 98 184.5 8 0.10 4.8% comp.lang.c++ 31 11000 880 98% 174 258.9 15 0.16 4.7% comp.dcom.modems 32 11000 854 98% 55 85.0 5 0.05 4.6% comp.mail.misc 33 11000 833 98% 15 136.4 1 0.08 4.5% news.lists 34 10000 801 98% 35 49.2 3 0.03 4.3% comp.org.usenix 35 10000 793 98% 27 93.0 2 0.06 4.3% comp.std.unix 36 10000 783 98% 65 105.1 6 0.07 4.2% comp.bugs.sys5 37 10000 783 98% 64 178.2 6 0.12 4.2% comp.ai.digest 38 10000 782 98% 297 422.7 29 0.28 4.2% comp.protocols.tcp-ip 39 10000 773 98% 28 54.4 2 0.04 4.2% comp.os.research 40 9900 763 98% 61 387.3 6 0.26 4.1% comp.bugs.4bsd