Xref: utzoo news.lists:515 news.groups:4799 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 TRAFFIC VOLUME (JUN 88) Message-ID: <13707@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: 2 Jul 88 07:38:59 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 TRAFFIC VOLUME 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 16000 1587 98% 79 4114.0 0% 0.49 8.1% comp.sources.games 3 9100 880 81% 1795 2441.6 3% 0.42 4.5% talk.bizarre 4 11000 1089 96% 1262 2438.9 7% 0.41 5.6% comp.sys.amiga 5 28000 2742 99% 57 2419.0 2% 0.16 14.1% comp.sources.unix 6 5100 491 85% 816 2312.6 22% 0.74 2.5% talk.politics.misc 7 14000 1359 88% 1269 2184.7 4% 0.26 7.0% soc.singles 8 9000 872 96% 444 2087.5 2% 0.43 4.5% comp.windows.x 9 9900 961 94% 1225 2027.7 15% 0.37 4.9% rec.music.misc 10 15000 1437 95% 60 1997.1 2% 0.24 7.4% comp.binaries.ibm.pc 11 10000 984 97% 61 1799.5 0% 0.34 5.0% comp.binaries.mac 12 4700 459 94% 649 1797.7 0% 0.69 2.4% rec.games.frp 13 16000 1544 98% 1162 1725.9 7% 0.20 7.9% comp.sys.mac 14 17000 1680 99% 650 1632.2 15% 0.18 8.6% comp.unix.wizards 15 5100 498 88% 698 1446.4 2% 0.48 2.6% soc.motss 16 4800 462 90% 593 1422.4 9% 0.51 2.4% soc.culture.china 17 2600 253 78% 560 1413.0 22% 0.82 1.3% talk.politics.mideast 18 25000 2402 97% 808 1322.1 13% 0.10 12.3% comp.sys.ibm.pc 19 2300 225 84% 507 1293.1 16% 0.92 1.2% talk.religion.misc 20 12000 1160 94% 709 1250.3 9% 0.19 5.9% rec.arts.sf-lovers 21 12000 1122 89% 706 1236.4 6% 0.18 5.8% rec.arts.startrek 22 5600 537 89% 672 1203.4 1% 0.37 2.8% rec.aviation 23 10000 1002 88% 801 1201.3 20% 0.20 5.1% rec.autos 24 4900 472 95% 37 1055.4 17% 0.39 2.4% comp.binaries.amiga 25 2700 261 78% 32 1038.7 0% 0.58 1.3% comp.binaries.apple2 26 5100 489 94% 492 1038.5 1% 0.37 2.5% soc.culture.indian 27 15000 1426 99% 488 1019.4 25% 0.13 7.3% news.groups 28 10000 989 89% 687 1013.1 10% 0.17 5.1% rec.arts.movies 29 4100 392 88% 618 1007.6 0% 0.42 2.0% rec.sport.baseball 30 6400 615 98% 452 985.7 3% 0.29 3.2% comp.os.vms 31 11000 1018 88% 458 963.7 10% 0.15 5.2% soc.women 32 5200 504 88% 498 960.4 3% 0.31 2.6% rec.bicycles 33 3800 366 88% 581 935.3 1% 0.42 1.9% rec.sport.basketball 34 8000 774 90% 405 926.5 45% 0.20 4.0% misc.legal 35 20000 1934 86% 602 913.6 11% 0.08 9.9% rec.humor 36 7600 737 86% 426 902.6 10% 0.20 3.8% soc.men 37 9300 896 96% 487 899.2 25% 0.18 4.6% sci.med 38 14000 1397 98% 452 896.8 23% 0.12 7.2% news.admin 39 3400 328 94% 568 865.3 3% 0.46 1.7% rec.music.gdead 40 4500 435 89% 394 855.6 2% 0.33 2.2% rec.arts.comics