Xref: utzoo news.lists:513 news.groups:4797 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 PER-READER COST (JUN 88) Message-ID: <13705@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: 2 Jul 88 07:38:49 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) | | | | | +-- Crossposting percentage | | | | | | +-- Cost ratio: $US/month/reader | | | | | | | +-- Share: % of newsreaders | | | | | | | | who read this group. V V V V V V V V 1 4700 454 92% 241 4847.9 0% 1.80 2.3% comp.mail.maps 2 2300 225 84% 507 1293.1 16% 0.92 1.2% talk.religion.misc 3 2600 253 78% 560 1413.0 22% 0.82 1.3% talk.politics.mideast 4 5100 491 85% 816 2312.6 22% 0.74 2.5% talk.politics.misc 5 4700 459 94% 649 1797.7 0% 0.69 2.4% rec.games.frp 6 1900 184 85% 290 745.8 2% 0.64 0.9% talk.origins 7 2700 261 78% 32 1038.7 0% 0.58 1.3% comp.binaries.apple2 8 1800 171 85% 190 593.5 11% 0.54 0.9% talk.politics.theory 9 4800 462 90% 593 1422.4 9% 0.51 2.4% soc.culture.china 10 1700 166 93% 135 477.0 18% 0.50 0.9% soc.culture.greek 11 16000 1587 98% 79 4114.0 0% 0.49 8.1% comp.sources.games 12 5100 498 88% 698 1446.4 2% 0.48 2.6% soc.motss 13 3400 328 94% 568 865.3 3% 0.46 1.7% rec.music.gdead 14 9000 872 96% 444 2087.5 2% 0.43 4.5% comp.windows.x 15 2800 273 88% 381 714.9 1% 0.43 1.4% rec.motorcycles 16 9100 880 81% 1795 2441.6 3% 0.42 4.5% talk.bizarre 17 4100 392 88% 618 1007.6 0% 0.42 2.0% rec.sport.baseball 18 3800 366 88% 581 935.3 1% 0.42 1.9% rec.sport.basketball 19 11000 1089 96% 1262 2438.9 7% 0.41 5.6% comp.sys.amiga 20 4900 472 95% 37 1055.4 17% 0.39 2.4% comp.binaries.amiga 21 9900 961 94% 1225 2027.7 15% 0.37 4.9% rec.music.misc 22 5600 537 89% 672 1203.4 1% 0.37 2.8% rec.aviation 23 5100 489 94% 492 1038.5 1% 0.37 2.5% soc.culture.indian 24 3700 354 94% 259 733.5 24% 0.36 1.8% soc.culture.jewish 25 2000 197 94% 56 381.8 0% 0.35 1.0% rec.games.go 26 10000 984 97% 61 1799.5 0% 0.34 5.0% comp.binaries.mac 27 4500 435 89% 394 855.6 2% 0.33 2.2% rec.arts.comics 28 5200 504 88% 498 960.4 3% 0.31 2.6% rec.bicycles 29 2800 270 83% 198 522.8 12% 0.30 1.4% talk.religion.newage 30 6400 615 98% 452 985.7 3% 0.29 3.2% comp.os.vms 31 1100 105 85% 92 194.3 6% 0.29 0.5% rec.equestrian 32 2000 194 98% 4 291.4 0% 0.27 1.0% comp.org.fidonet 33 1800 176 85% 107 293.7 25% 0.27 0.9% talk.philosophy.misc 34 14000 1359 88% 1269 2184.7 4% 0.26 7.0% soc.singles 35 1400 137 54% 154 342.7 3% 0.25 0.7% rec.folk-dancing 36 15000 1437 95% 60 1997.1 2% 0.24 7.4% comp.binaries.ibm.pc 37 5600 542 96% 395 729.8 2% 0.24 2.8% comp.sys.apple 38 5400 519 88% 383 750.8 6% 0.24 2.7% comp.sys.amiga.tech 39 6000 584 95% 34 752.1 3% 0.23 3.0% comp.binaries.atari.st 40 5500 534 95% 312 679.7 3% 0.23 2.7% rec.ham-radio