Xref: utzoo news.lists:534 news.groups:5042 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!husc6!purdue!decwrl!reid From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups Subject: TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY (JUL 88) Message-ID: <14301@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: 1 Aug 88 10:04:09 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 34000 3105 99% 15 78.2 0% 0.00 16.4% news.announce.conferences 2 29000 2603 99% 27 1133.3 4% 0.07 13.7% comp.sources.unix 3 26000 2328 85% 39 57.8 0% 0.00 12.3% rec.humor.funny 4 26000 2317 95% 159 352.4 8% 0.02 12.2% misc.jobs.offered 5 25000 2251 97% 831 1454.8 10% 0.11 11.9% comp.sys.ibm.pc 6 22000 2011 86% 900 1087.6 5% 0.08 10.6% rec.humor 7 21000 1872 99% 25 423.1 0% 0.04 9.9% comp.sources.misc 8 19000 1762 60% 893 1385.3 13% 0.08 9.3% alt.sex 9 19000 1755 99% 123 228.5 20% 0.02 9.2% comp.sources.d 10 19000 1711 89% 249 290.5 30% 0.03 9.0% misc.forsale 11 19000 1703 99% 417 1148.3 5% 0.11 9.0% comp.unix.wizards 12 18000 1652 98% 1234 1829.5 9% 0.19 8.7% comp.sys.mac 13 18000 1629 98% 116 120.8 33% 0.01 8.6% misc.wanted 14 18000 1611 97% 504 1020.7 25% 0.10 8.5% comp.lang.c 15 18000 1588 97% 603 1062.9 14% 0.11 8.4% comp.unix.questions 16 17000 1513 97% 200 427.1 19% 0.05 8.0% comp.graphics 17 16000 1491 98% 57 2909.1 0% 0.34 7.9% comp.sources.games 18 16000 1414 99% 195 236.3 35% 0.03 7.4% comp.sources.wanted 19 16000 1413 90% 517 896.9 33% 0.09 7.4% misc.consumers 20 15000 1359 96% 191 360.3 27% 0.04 7.2% comp.misc 21 15000 1350 87% 1567 2704.2 2% 0.30 7.1% soc.singles 22 15000 1341 95% 20 600.5 0% 0.07 7.1% comp.binaries.ibm.pc 23 15000 1337 99% 279 612.9 64% 0.08 7.0% news.admin 24 14000 1314 98% 436 1043.1 9% 0.14 6.9% comp.arch 25 14000 1276 95% 147 282.8 12% 0.04 6.7% misc.jobs.misc 26 14000 1253 99% 204 396.4 59% 0.05 6.6% news.groups 27 13000 1212 99% 81 710.8 9% 0.10 6.4% comp.sources.bugs 28 13000 1204 94% 680 1208.8 12% 0.17 6.3% rec.arts.sf-lovers 29 13000 1162 99% 35 92.8 12% 0.01 6.1% news.misc 30 13000 1160 96% 333 815.1 15% 0.11 6.1% sci.space 31 12000 1130 89% 292 472.8 8% 0.07 6.0% misc.consumers.house 32 12000 1105 96% 255 342.3 27% 0.05 5.8% misc.misc 33 12000 1071 97% 52 1552.4 0% 0.24 5.6% comp.binaries.mac 34 12000 1069 96% 117 229.2 55% 0.03 5.6% comp.ai 35 12000 1064 99% 8 61.4 0% 0.01 5.6% news.announce.newusers 36 12000 1043 88% 260 415.5 8% 0.06 5.5% rec.travel 37 11000 1042 99% 99 206.5 9% 0.03 5.5% comp.databases 38 11000 1036 96% 744 1410.1 8% 0.23 5.5% comp.sys.amiga 39 11000 1024 94% 1080 1838.5 16% 0.30 5.4% rec.music.misc 40 11000 1019 98% 18 318.0 0% 0.05 5.4% comp.risks