Xref: utzoo news.lists:512 news.groups:4796 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!purdue!decwrl!reid From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups Subject: TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY (JUN 88) Message-ID: <13704@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: 2 Jul 88 07:38:44 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) | | | | | +-- Crossposting percentage | | | | | | +-- Cost ratio: $US/month/reader | | | | | | | +-- Share: % of newsreaders | | | | | | | | who read this group. V V V V V V V V 1 33000 3144 98% 8 37.7 0% 0.00 16.1% news.announce.conferences 2 28000 2742 99% 57 2419.0 2% 0.16 14.1% comp.sources.unix 3 25000 2403 94% 142 299.1 8% 0.02 12.3% misc.jobs.offered 4 25000 2402 97% 808 1322.1 13% 0.10 12.3% comp.sys.ibm.pc 5 24000 2276 84% 61 136.1 0% 0.01 11.7% rec.humor.funny 6 22000 2084 99% 39 842.3 0% 0.07 10.7% comp.sources.misc 7 20000 1934 86% 602 913.6 11% 0.08 9.9% rec.humor 8 19000 1842 99% 148 231.7 13% 0.02 9.4% comp.sources.d 9 18000 1721 56% 255 527.0 3% 0.03 8.8% alt.sex 10 18000 1704 90% 279 296.9 29% 0.03 8.7% misc.forsale 11 17000 1680 99% 650 1632.2 15% 0.18 8.6% comp.unix.wizards 12 17000 1675 97% 472 787.1 10% 0.09 8.6% comp.lang.c 13 17000 1602 97% 408 849.4 19% 0.09 8.2% comp.unix.questions 14 16000 1587 98% 79 4114.0 0% 0.49 8.1% comp.sources.games 15 16000 1544 98% 1162 1725.9 7% 0.20 7.9% comp.sys.mac 16 16000 1508 98% 110 109.8 38% 0.01 7.7% misc.wanted 17 15000 1499 97% 160 223.0 16% 0.03 7.7% comp.graphics 18 15000 1448 96% 100 176.1 34% 0.02 7.4% comp.misc 19 15000 1437 95% 60 1997.1 2% 0.24 7.4% comp.binaries.ibm.pc 20 15000 1426 99% 488 1019.4 25% 0.13 7.3% news.groups 21 14000 1397 98% 452 896.8 23% 0.12 7.2% news.admin 22 14000 1384 98% 289 638.0 4% 0.09 7.1% comp.arch 23 14000 1383 98% 172 211.2 27% 0.03 7.1% comp.sources.wanted 24 14000 1378 90% 406 613.1 21% 0.08 7.1% misc.consumers 25 14000 1359 88% 1269 2184.7 4% 0.26 7.0% soc.singles 26 14000 1344 95% 52 81.1 22% 0.01 6.9% misc.jobs.misc 27 13000 1298 98% 53 138.1 10% 0.02 6.7% comp.sources.bugs 28 13000 1253 99% 72 129.3 65% 0.02 6.4% news.misc 29 12000 1175 96% 178 356.1 14% 0.05 6.0% sci.space 30 12000 1162 89% 282 393.8 10% 0.06 6.0% misc.consumers.house 31 12000 1160 94% 709 1250.3 9% 0.19 5.9% rec.arts.sf-lovers 32 12000 1159 98% 10 28.8 0% 0.00 5.9% comp.newprod 33 12000 1132 96% 131 192.2 36% 0.03 5.8% misc.misc 34 12000 1126 99% 81 179.9 20% 0.03 5.8% comp.databases 35 12000 1126 99% 2 3.8 100% 0.00 5.8% news.announce.important 36 12000 1122 89% 706 1236.4 6% 0.18 5.8% rec.arts.startrek 37 11000 1089 96% 1262 2438.9 7% 0.41 5.6% comp.sys.amiga 38 11000 1053 96% 118 286.6 14% 0.05 5.4% comp.ai 39 11000 1025 96% 395 810.5 2% 0.14 5.3% comp.sys.atari.st 40 11000 1019 98% 11 215.0 0% 0.04 5.2% comp.risks