Xref: utzoo news.lists:586 news.groups:5543 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 PER-READER COST (SEP 88) Message-ID: <15413@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: 2 Oct 88 17:40:21 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 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 7500 543 85% 2103 5194.6 35% 1.10 2.8% talk.politics.misc 2 5800 419 91% 142 2346.6 0% 0.66 2.1% comp.mail.maps 3 4300 311 85% 685 1769.4 19% 0.63 1.6% talk.religion.misc 4 3100 225 79% 507 1327.3 10% 0.61 1.1% talk.politics.mideast 5 6200 450 88% 980 2012.8 8% 0.51 2.3% rec.arts.comics 6 5900 422 94% 579 1635.5 2% 0.47 2.1% rec.games.frp 7 2900 212 85% 300 744.5 21% 0.39 1.1% talk.origins 8 2700 198 85% 220 651.4 10% 0.37 1.0% talk.politics.theory 9 8400 602 98% 688 1510.3 9% 0.32 3.1% comp.os.vms 10 7600 548 95% 45 1410.1 0% 0.32 2.8% comp.binaries.atari.st 11 6600 479 90% 648 1314.3 3% 0.32 2.4% soc.culture.china 12 3300 240 85% 267 695.2 3% 0.32 1.2% talk.abortion 13 8700 626 98% 244 1464.3 0% 0.30 3.2% comp.os.minix 14 7800 559 87% 685 1435.6 0% 0.29 2.8% soc.motss 15 7600 549 94% 287 1241.8 4% 0.28 2.8% rec.music.synth 16 5000 362 94% 580 845.1 3% 0.28 1.8% rec.music.gdead 17 4400 316 87% 447 752.8 1% 0.27 1.6% rec.motorcycles 18 11000 822 79% 40 2005.7 0% 0.26 4.2% comp.sources.x 19 2200 160 87% 151 361.7 0% 0.26 0.8% rec.railroad 20 10000 736 81% 1622 1706.3 3% 0.25 3.7% talk.bizarre 21 8000 574 89% 740 1272.1 0% 0.25 2.9% rec.aviation 22 6300 454 86% 567 1020.6 1% 0.25 2.3% rec.sport.football 23 14000 1022 96% 1103 1923.9 8% 0.24 5.2% comp.sys.amiga 24 15000 1108 94% 1029 1958.3 5% 0.22 5.6% rec.arts.sf-lovers 25 12000 869 94% 1029 1586.8 8% 0.22 4.4% rec.music.misc 26 3600 260 91% 286 479.2 3% 0.22 1.3% rec.music.beatles 27 6800 487 93% 417 836.7 4% 0.21 2.5% soc.culture.indian 28 6700 482 87% 547 906.0 0% 0.21 2.4% rec.bicycles 29 5900 423 87% 460 804.2 0% 0.21 2.1% rec.sport.baseball 30 5500 400 87% 492 746.4 0% 0.21 2.0% rec.arts.tv.soaps 31 3900 280 87% 290 506.2 0% 0.20 1.4% rec.sport.basketball 32 7600 550 94% 448 868.1 6% 0.19 2.8% rec.ham-radio 33 4600 333 88% 335 551.4 13% 0.19 1.7% rec.arts.drwho 34 1500 111 86% 15 180.2 0% 0.19 0.6% soc.roots 35 26000 1874 99% 75 2607.6 0% 0.18 9.5% comp.sources.misc 36 6300 451 97% 291 639.7 2% 0.18 2.3% comp.lang.fortran 37 14000 991 96% 439 1375.7 2% 0.17 5.0% comp.sys.atari.st 38 28000 2046 96% 1265 2619.1 13% 0.16 10.4% comp.sys.ibm.pc 39 15000 1079 97% 42 1387.3 0% 0.16 5.5% comp.binaries.mac 40 7900 572 96% 395 721.6 1% 0.16 2.9% comp.sys.apple