Xref: utzoo news.lists:537 news.groups:5045 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 TRAFFIC VOLUME (JUL 88) Message-ID: <14304@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: 1 Aug 88 10:04:31 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 4800 434 92% 222 4959.1 0% 1.80 2.3% comp.mail.maps 2 5800 525 85% 1463 3506.5 34% 0.97 2.8% talk.politics.misc 3 16000 1491 98% 57 2909.1 0% 0.34 7.9% comp.sources.games 4 15000 1350 87% 1567 2704.2 2% 0.30 7.1% soc.singles 5 9000 812 80% 2119 2419.2 2% 0.41 4.3% talk.bizarre 6 5400 490 90% 919 2157.9 6% 0.68 2.6% soc.culture.china 7 4600 416 96% 42 2083.2 8% 0.82 2.2% comp.lsi 8 6500 592 98% 529 1937.1 2% 0.55 3.1% comp.os.vms 9 11000 1024 94% 1080 1838.5 16% 0.30 5.4% rec.music.misc 10 18000 1652 98% 1234 1829.5 9% 0.19 8.7% comp.sys.mac 11 6200 562 87% 826 1722.6 10% 0.46 3.0% soc.motss 12 12000 1071 97% 52 1552.4 0% 0.24 5.6% comp.binaries.mac 13 6200 565 89% 889 1552.3 14% 0.42 3.0% rec.aviation 14 4800 439 88% 661 1499.2 3% 0.52 2.3% rec.arts.comics 15 2700 248 78% 648 1481.2 43% 0.81 1.3% talk.politics.mideast 16 25000 2251 97% 831 1454.8 10% 0.11 11.9% comp.sys.ibm.pc 17 11000 1036 96% 744 1410.1 8% 0.23 5.5% comp.sys.amiga 18 19000 1762 60% 893 1385.3 13% 0.08 9.3% alt.sex 19 11000 965 88% 821 1347.7 28% 0.20 5.1% rec.autos 20 6800 617 98% 181 1319.0 0% 0.36 3.3% comp.os.minix 21 4500 406 87% 732 1264.4 0% 0.46 2.1% rec.sport.baseball 22 11000 997 89% 774 1227.0 6% 0.19 5.3% rec.arts.movies 23 13000 1204 94% 680 1208.8 12% 0.17 6.3% rec.arts.sf-lovers 24 2000 183 85% 453 1207.3 2% 0.97 1.0% talk.origins 25 19000 1703 99% 417 1148.3 5% 0.11 9.0% comp.unix.wizards 26 29000 2603 99% 27 1133.3 4% 0.07 13.7% comp.sources.unix 27 3000 269 84% 433 1126.3 16% 0.60 1.4% talk.religion.misc 28 5100 459 93% 560 1099.8 1% 0.38 2.4% soc.culture.indian 29 4600 414 94% 445 1096.0 2% 0.42 2.2% rec.games.frp 30 22000 2011 86% 900 1087.6 5% 0.08 10.6% rec.humor 31 18000 1588 97% 603 1062.9 14% 0.11 8.4% comp.unix.questions 32 5900 534 87% 627 1053.9 1% 0.29 2.8% rec.bicycles 33 9200 832 90% 450 1045.7 47% 0.19 4.4% misc.legal 34 14000 1314 98% 436 1043.1 9% 0.14 6.9% comp.arch 35 11000 1008 89% 495 1022.6 3% 0.16 5.3% rec.arts.startrek 36 18000 1611 97% 504 1020.7 25% 0.10 8.5% comp.lang.c 37 9300 847 89% 665 1009.1 10% 0.18 4.5% rec.audio 38 10000 922 97% 420 983.4 4% 0.18 4.9% comp.windows.x 39 4400 398 94% 604 948.0 2% 0.38 2.1% rec.music.gdead 40 7800 709 89% 475 935.8 23% 0.20 3.7% rec.arts.books