Xref: utzoo news.lists:514 news.groups:4798 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 AMOUNT OF CROSSPOSTING (JUN 88) Message-ID: <13706@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: 2 Jul 88 07:38:53 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 AMOUNT OF CROSSPOSTING 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 12000 1126 99% 2 3.8 100% 0.00 5.8% news.announce.important 2 6400 615 96% 3 4.7 100% 0.00 3.2% comp.edu 3 3700 356 98% 2 8.4 100% 0.00 1.8% comp.org.decus 4 2800 268 95% 1 6.7 100% 0.00 1.4% sci.med.aids 5 2400 234 58% 1 0.8 100% 0.00 1.2% comp.sys.super 6 2300 223 58% 1 4.0 100% 0.00 1.1% comp.unix.cray 7 1500 148 25% 2 3.8 100% 0.00 0.8% alt.birthright 8 6800 660 98% 12 19.1 75% 0.01 3.4% comp.bugs.sys5 9 2600 255 59% 4 4.5 75% 0.00 1.3% comp.periphs.printers 10 13000 1253 99% 72 129.3 65% 0.02 6.4% news.misc 11 5900 566 98% 95 177.4 63% 0.06 2.9% sci.bio 12 5000 485 96% 147 302.4 60% 0.11 2.5% comp.lang.fortran 13 7400 717 89% 217 611.0 54% 0.14 3.7% misc.headlines 14 6200 603 98% 15 20.0 50% 0.01 3.1% comp.sys.dec 15 2000 189 93% 10 14.0 50% 0.01 1.0% comp.sys.encore 16 8500 823 97% 25 40.3 46% 0.01 4.2% comp.periphs 17 8000 774 90% 405 926.5 45% 0.20 4.0% misc.legal 18 5900 572 99% 17 30.4 44% 0.01 2.9% comp.cog-eng 19 8000 772 96% 202 375.8 43% 0.09 4.0% comp.sys.att 20 1400 133 75% 12 32.5 42% 0.03 0.7% talk.politics.soviet 21 2700 259 88% 23 29.9 41% 0.02 1.3% rec.skiing 22 8200 791 96% 274 510.7 40% 0.12 4.1% sci.misc 23 16000 1508 98% 110 109.8 38% 0.01 7.7% misc.wanted 24 8400 812 99% 17 31.7 38% 0.01 4.2% news.sysadmin 25 6700 649 77% 45 64.2 38% 0.01 3.3% comp.editors 26 5600 539 97% 41 65.5 38% 0.02 2.8% comp.terminals 27 7800 755 98% 49 71.7 37% 0.02 3.9% comp.mail.misc 28 12000 1132 96% 131 192.2 36% 0.03 5.8% misc.misc 29 15000 1448 96% 100 176.1 34% 0.02 7.4% comp.misc 30 10000 1006 96% 196 294.1 34% 0.05 5.2% sci.electronics 31 9000 874 96% 56 160.5 34% 0.03 4.5% comp.sys.misc 32 7900 767 98% 6 47.9 33% 0.01 3.9% comp.std.unix 33 3700 358 85% 12 12.8 33% 0.01 1.8% news.software.nntp 34 3600 352 85% 92 371.4 33% 0.17 1.8% talk.abortion 35 2900 279 90% 3 2.9 33% 0.00 1.4% comp.ivideodisc 36 1900 182 94% 3 3.9 33% 0.00 0.9% rec.games.rogue 37 1700 164 60% 3 6.1 33% 0.00 0.8% comp.sys.handhelds 38 7000 681 85% 26 35.9 32% 0.01 3.5% rec.humor.d 39 18000 1704 90% 279 296.9 29% 0.03 8.7% misc.forsale 40 4600 441 88% 7 15.8 29% 0.01 2.3% soc.misc