Xref: utzoo news.lists:536 news.groups:5044 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 AMOUNT OF CROSSPOSTING (JUL 88) Message-ID: <14303@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: 1 Aug 88 10:04:26 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 6000 542 96% 2 2.9 100% 0.00 2.9% sci.research 2 1200 105 23% 3 3.9 100% 0.00 0.6% comp.ibm.binaries.d 3 1500 139 76% 56 117.0 85% 0.11 0.7% talk.politics.soviet 4 5900 539 98% 107 212.5 73% 0.07 2.8% sci.bio 5 5600 512 98% 15 128.6 71% 0.04 2.7% news.lists 6 8700 785 97% 33 42.9 68% 0.01 4.1% comp.periphs 7 8000 727 98% 40 66.4 66% 0.02 3.8% comp.bugs.4bsd 8 15000 1337 99% 279 612.9 64% 0.08 7.0% news.admin 9 5000 453 96% 16 24.5 60% 0.01 2.4% comp.sys.intel 10 4500 410 93% 5 5.2 60% 0.00 2.2% soc.culture.misc 11 14000 1253 99% 204 396.4 59% 0.05 6.6% news.groups 12 7700 701 98% 15 23.5 57% 0.01 3.7% comp.bugs.sys5 13 12000 1069 96% 117 229.2 55% 0.03 5.6% comp.ai 14 8400 760 98% 54 93.7 55% 0.02 4.0% comp.mail.misc 15 5900 536 98% 16 26.5 53% 0.01 2.8% comp.protocols.misc 16 3700 335 96% 2 2.5 50% 0.00 1.8% comp.std.internat 17 2400 222 92% 8 8.4 50% 0.01 1.2% sci.lang.japan 18 2000 179 94% 8 9.8 50% 0.01 0.9% rec.games.rogue 19 9200 832 90% 450 1045.7 47% 0.19 4.4% misc.legal 20 5500 495 96% 75 133.1 47% 0.04 2.6% comp.lang.fortran 21 2700 248 78% 648 1481.2 43% 0.81 1.3% talk.politics.mideast 22 4600 417 58% 141 274.7 41% 0.07 2.2% alt.drugs 23 66 6 0% 231 410.5 40% 0.06 0.0% unix-pc.general 24 8000 726 89% 461 882.3 39% 0.19 3.8% misc.headlines 25 4000 360 68% 124 217.2 38% 0.07 1.9% alt.config 26 3100 281 95% 8 21.4 38% 0.01 1.5% sci.philosophy.tech 27 6100 554 98% 20 22.7 37% 0.01 2.9% comp.sys.dec 28 5200 472 66% 103 134.9 37% 0.03 2.5% alt.rock-n-roll 29 5100 461 88% 167 256.3 37% 0.08 2.4% rec.food.veg 30 7800 708 83% 53 101.2 36% 0.02 3.7% comp.editors 31 16000 1414 99% 195 236.3 35% 0.03 7.4% comp.sources.wanted 32 1800 167 59% 143 500.5 35% 0.31 0.9% alt.individualism 33 6000 544 97% 53 109.0 34% 0.03 2.9% comp.terminals 34 5800 525 85% 1463 3506.5 34% 0.97 2.8% talk.politics.misc 35 18000 1629 98% 116 120.8 33% 0.01 8.6% misc.wanted 36 16000 1413 90% 517 896.9 33% 0.09 7.4% misc.consumers 37 3900 356 88% 176 237.6 33% 0.10 1.9% rec.arts.drwho 38 3500 320 95% 6 54.9 33% 0.03 1.7% comp.binaries.amiga 39 2700 243 68% 9 12.5 33% 0.01 1.3% comp.lsi.cad 40 1900 172 58% 3 2.8 33% 0.00 0.9% comp.unix.cray