Xref: utzoo news.lists:559 news.groups:5311 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 PER-READER COST (AUG 88) Message-ID: <14834@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: 3 Sep 88 09:51:06 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 PER-READER COST 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 5500 439 91% 143 3269.8 0% 0.95 2.2% comp.mail.maps 2 6500 520 86% 1714 4104.6 21% 0.94 2.6% talk.politics.misc 3 7900 631 98% 643 3525.0 3% 0.76 3.2% comp.os.vms 4 5100 403 94% 621 1976.8 6% 0.63 2.0% rec.games.frp 5 4600 365 85% 788 1761.4 15% 0.57 1.8% talk.religion.misc 6 2600 209 85% 296 997.2 14% 0.57 1.0% talk.politics.theory 7 6800 539 90% 1060 2286.9 7% 0.53 2.7% soc.culture.china 8 3200 257 79% 382 937.0 20% 0.41 1.3% talk.politics.mideast 9 4700 377 93% 489 1158.8 1% 0.40 1.9% soc.culture.jewish 10 1800 142 86% 34 457.4 3% 0.38 0.7% soc.roots 11 5400 430 88% 545 1292.9 8% 0.37 2.2% rec.arts.comics 12 5700 456 87% 740 1293.0 1% 0.34 2.3% rec.sport.baseball 13 6200 495 93% 559 1213.5 1% 0.32 2.5% soc.culture.indian 14 4400 347 93% 651 864.0 1% 0.32 1.7% rec.music.gdead 15 7500 600 86% 810 1514.0 3% 0.30 3.0% soc.motss 16 6800 540 87% 727 1279.1 1% 0.29 2.7% rec.bicycles 17 3000 240 90% 16 547.3 0% 0.29 1.2% comp.binaries.apple2 18 2500 196 85% 200 491.6 25% 0.29 1.0% talk.origins 19 2400 191 94% 67 415.9 0% 0.29 1.0% comp.sys.sgi 20 16000 1254 87% 1666 2809.5 8% 0.27 6.3% soc.singles 21 8600 686 80% 1500 1661.9 2% 0.27 3.4% talk.bizarre 22 6900 551 88% 656 1146.0 3% 0.26 2.8% rec.aviation 23 6400 513 94% 264 1012.8 10% 0.26 2.6% rec.music.synth 24 3800 300 87% 399 648.9 1% 0.26 1.5% rec.motorcycles 25 12000 982 94% 1113 1829.3 9% 0.25 4.9% rec.music.misc 26 18000 1412 95% 81 2624.1 0% 0.24 7.1% comp.binaries.ibm.pc 27 13000 1021 96% 1085 1893.2 6% 0.24 5.1% comp.sys.amiga 28 13000 1067 97% 54 1731.4 0% 0.23 5.3% comp.binaries.mac 29 8100 641 62% 40 1632.0 0% 0.22 3.2% comp.sources.x 30 2000 158 63% 197 402.1 68% 0.22 0.8% alt.individualism 31 12000 926 87% 776 1670.1 8% 0.21 4.6% soc.women 32 8700 696 89% 610 1193.9 30% 0.21 3.5% misc.kids 33 15000 1186 94% 905 1726.9 10% 0.19 5.9% rec.arts.sf-lovers 34 12000 991 88% 862 1449.8 13% 0.19 5.0% rec.arts.movies 35 2900 233 54% 169 577.2 1% 0.19 1.2% gnu.gcc.bug 36 9000 714 89% 408 1038.8 29% 0.18 3.6% misc.headlines 37 3500 277 85% 158 421.4 1% 0.18 1.4% talk.abortion 38 7300 583 98% 142 663.7 1% 0.16 2.9% comp.os.minix 39 6400 510 94% 291 625.2 14% 0.16 2.6% rec.ham-radio 40 5100 402 87% 351 551.2 0% 0.16 2.0% rec.arts.tv.soaps