Xref: utzoo news.lists:585 news.groups:5542 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!purdue!decwrl!reid From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups Subject: TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY (SEP 88) Message-ID: <15412@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: 2 Oct 88 17:40:16 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 40000 2911 98% 20 73.3 0% 0.00 14.8% news.announce.conferences 2 35000 2493 89% 49 94.3 0% 0.00 12.7% rec.humor.funny 3 32000 2340 95% 139 259.0 5% 0.01 11.9% misc.jobs.offered 4 28000 2046 96% 1265 2619.1 13% 0.16 10.4% comp.sys.ibm.pc 5 28000 1990 99% 38 1722.1 8% 0.11 10.1% comp.sources.unix 6 27000 1919 59% 368 678.9 5% 0.03 9.7% alt.sex 7 26000 1874 99% 75 2607.6 0% 0.18 9.5% comp.sources.misc 8 26000 1843 85% 601 807.5 21% 0.05 9.4% rec.humor 9 24000 1741 98% 1203 1864.1 11% 0.14 8.8% comp.sys.mac 10 24000 1729 99% 536 853.9 12% 0.06 8.8% comp.unix.wizards 11 23000 1693 97% 708 1221.6 16% 0.09 8.6% comp.lang.c 12 23000 1689 88% 286 318.2 25% 0.02 8.6% misc.forsale 13 23000 1669 97% 406 561.1 29% 0.04 8.5% comp.unix.questions 14 23000 1657 97% 118 127.1 32% 0.01 8.4% misc.wanted 15 21000 1533 99% 5 55.6 0% 0.00 7.8% news.announce.newusers 16 21000 1522 99% 95 168.2 9% 0.01 7.7% comp.sources.d 17 21000 1484 98% 5 130.9 0% 0.01 7.5% comp.sources.games 18 20000 1464 97% 177 933.1 10% 0.08 7.4% comp.graphics 19 20000 1448 99% 250 373.8 38% 0.03 7.4% comp.sources.wanted 20 20000 1427 98% 190 354.9 12% 0.03 7.2% comp.arch 21 20000 1415 97% 369 604.6 24% 0.05 7.2% comp.misc 22 19000 1336 96% 136 197.6 20% 0.02 6.8% misc.misc 23 18000 1326 89% 435 708.6 33% 0.06 6.7% misc.consumers 24 18000 1308 87% 964 1572.0 11% 0.14 6.6% soc.singles 25 18000 1291 98% 272 592.2 40% 0.06 6.6% news.admin 26 18000 1289 96% 37 1005.7 3% 0.10 6.5% comp.binaries.ibm.pc 27 17000 1255 98% 183 320.2 40% 0.03 6.4% news.groups 28 17000 1218 95% 94 175.7 11% 0.02 6.2% misc.jobs.misc 29 16000 1187 99% 110 302.7 5% 0.03 6.0% comp.sources.bugs 30 16000 1134 96% 135 211.6 17% 0.02 5.8% comp.ai 31 16000 1118 99% 145 249.3 14% 0.03 5.7% comp.lang.c++ 32 15000 1110 88% 277 480.6 20% 0.05 5.6% misc.consumers.house 33 15000 1108 94% 1029 1958.3 5% 0.22 5.6% rec.arts.sf-lovers 34 15000 1090 98% 85 169.0 14% 0.02 5.5% news.misc 35 15000 1079 97% 42 1387.3 0% 0.16 5.5% comp.binaries.mac 36 15000 1072 98% 17 318.1 0% 0.04 5.4% comp.risks 37 14000 1027 88% 652 1053.8 16% 0.12 5.2% rec.arts.movies 38 14000 1022 96% 1103 1923.9 8% 0.24 5.2% comp.sys.amiga 39 14000 1008 88% 661 1156.7 6% 0.13 5.1% rec.arts.startrek 40 14000 1003 99% 201 619.8 13% 0.08 5.1% comp.emacs