Xref: utzoo news.lists:558 news.groups:5310 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!purdue!decwrl!reid From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups Subject: TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY (AUG 88) Message-ID: <14833@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: 3 Sep 88 09:50:55 GMT Sender: reid@decwrl.DEC.COM Organization: DEC Western Research Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif., USA Lines: 53 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 39000 3085 99% 24 115.8 0% 0.01 15.5% news.announce.conferences 2 32000 2565 88% 46 82.4 2% 0.00 12.9% rec.humor.funny 3 29000 2313 99% 1 38.7 100% 0.00 11.6% comp.sources.unix 4 29000 2306 95% 132 284.4 5% 0.02 11.6% misc.jobs.offered 5 27000 2177 96% 1051 1591.1 16% 0.10 10.9% comp.sys.ibm.pc 6 25000 2018 99% 32 935.9 0% 0.06 10.1% comp.sources.misc 7 24000 1894 85% 882 1014.0 10% 0.06 9.5% rec.humor 8 23000 1814 61% 426 641.1 12% 0.03 9.1% alt.sex 9 23000 1795 99% 68 130.5 23% 0.01 9.0% comp.sources.d 10 22000 1754 98% 1046 1517.6 10% 0.12 8.8% comp.sys.mac 11 22000 1728 97% 125 139.3 34% 0.01 8.7% misc.wanted 12 22000 1726 89% 249 268.6 37% 0.02 8.6% misc.forsale 13 22000 1715 99% 564 1028.8 10% 0.08 8.6% comp.unix.wizards 14 21000 1675 97% 639 1039.1 23% 0.08 8.4% comp.lang.c 15 21000 1642 97% 399 644.9 19% 0.05 8.2% comp.unix.questions 16 20000 1630 97% 174 831.5 10% 0.07 8.2% comp.graphics 17 20000 1613 99% 7 59.2 0% 0.01 8.1% news.announce.newusers 18 18000 1425 89% 577 987.9 56% 0.09 7.1% misc.consumers 19 18000 1412 95% 81 2624.1 0% 0.24 7.1% comp.binaries.ibm.pc 20 18000 1405 97% 293 492.4 20% 0.05 7.0% comp.misc 21 17000 1390 98% 8 217.9 0% 0.02 7.0% comp.sources.games 22 17000 1385 98% 268 600.9 10% 0.06 6.9% comp.arch 23 17000 1376 98% 90 239.7 43% 0.02 6.9% news.admin 24 17000 1367 99% 203 227.0 25% 0.02 6.9% comp.sources.wanted 25 16000 1283 96% 215 349.9 5% 0.04 6.4% misc.misc 26 16000 1254 87% 1666 2809.5 8% 0.27 6.3% soc.singles 27 15000 1233 99% 46 120.0 12% 0.01 6.2% comp.sources.bugs 28 15000 1216 95% 165 277.4 8% 0.03 6.1% misc.jobs.misc 29 15000 1186 94% 905 1726.9 10% 0.19 5.9% rec.arts.sf-lovers 30 15000 1179 88% 266 376.5 8% 0.04 5.9% misc.consumers.house 31 15000 1168 98% 100 158.5 36% 0.02 5.9% news.groups 32 14000 1088 96% 73 183.0 54% 0.02 5.5% comp.ai 33 13000 1067 97% 54 1731.4 0% 0.23 5.3% comp.binaries.mac 34 13000 1055 99% 98 140.9 7% 0.02 5.3% comp.lang.c++ 35 13000 1053 98% 13 284.1 0% 0.04 5.3% comp.risks 36 13000 1049 88% 192 286.8 15% 0.03 5.3% rec.travel 37 13000 1028 99% 46 70.6 12% 0.01 5.2% news.misc 38 13000 1027 98% 26 55.5 0% 0.01 5.1% comp.compilers 39 13000 1026 99% 101 215.4 3% 0.03 5.1% comp.databases 40 13000 1021 96% 1085 1893.2 6% 0.24 5.1% comp.sys.amiga