Xref: utzoo news.lists:587 news.groups:5544 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 AMOUNT OF CROSSPOSTING (SEP 88) Message-ID: <15414@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: 2 Oct 88 17:40:25 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 AMOUNT OF CROSSPOSTING 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 6000 433 77% 2 2.8 100% 0.00 2.2% comp.lang.scheme.c 2 3800 275 98% 7 10.3 100% 0.00 1.4% comp.mail.headers 3 1900 138 60% 1 1.4 100% 0.00 0.7% comp.terminals.tty5620 4 1400 98 95% 1 6.4 100% 0.01 0.5% rec.mag.otherrealms 5 1200 83 85% 1 6.9 100% 0.01 0.4% rec.arts.int-fiction 6 1000 73 98% 1 1.5 100% 0.00 0.4% news.software.notes 7 8200 591 98% 23 50.7 95% 0.01 3.0% comp.cog-eng 8 6000 431 81% 5 11.3 80% 0.00 2.2% comp.sys.ibm.pc.net 9 5000 358 94% 24 53.5 74% 0.02 1.8% rec.mag 10 2800 200 85% 54 128.5 67% 0.07 1.0% soc.culture.arabic 11 1800 127 77% 17 48.0 63% 0.04 0.6% talk.politics.soviet 12 10000 753 98% 19 156.4 56% 0.03 3.8% news.lists 13 3700 270 80% 9 10.3 56% 0.00 1.4% comp.lsi.cad 14 11000 798 98% 36 45.9 53% 0.01 4.1% comp.mail.misc 15 9800 706 89% 226 598.8 53% 0.10 3.6% misc.headlines 16 7200 517 88% 23 46.1 50% 0.01 2.6% rec.misc 17 5400 391 93% 2 3.1 50% 0.00 2.0% soc.culture.misc 18 4600 333 87% 2 21.1 50% 0.01 1.7% comp.org.usrgroup 19 4100 293 97% 25 55.0 50% 0.02 1.5% comp.sys.pyramid 20 6800 488 96% 71 132.9 46% 0.03 2.5% comp.mail.sendmail 21 3500 253 97% 12 21.2 42% 0.01 1.3% comp.bugs.2bsd 22 1900 134 62% 48 87.1 42% 0.05 0.7% alt.individualism 23 69 5 0% 131 245.4 41% 0.03 0.0% unix-pc.general 24 18000 1291 98% 272 592.2 40% 0.06 6.6% news.admin 25 17000 1255 98% 183 320.2 40% 0.03 6.4% news.groups 26 10000 736 88% 300 693.8 40% 0.11 3.7% rec.arts.tv 27 4500 323 90% 54 97.0 39% 0.03 1.6% soc.culture.japan 28 20000 1448 99% 250 373.8 38% 0.03 7.4% comp.sources.wanted 29 8800 634 97% 13 13.4 38% 0.00 3.2% comp.lang.pascal 30 3000 213 79% 8 7.9 38% 0.00 1.1% comp.sys.zenith 31 7500 543 85% 2103 5194.6 35% 1.10 2.8% talk.politics.misc 32 11000 768 96% 124 270.0 34% 0.04 3.9% sci.misc 33 3200 233 87% 68 95.4 34% 0.05 1.2% rec.scuba 34 18000 1326 89% 435 708.6 33% 0.06 6.7% misc.consumers 35 12000 873 99% 54 84.9 33% 0.01 4.4% comp.std.c 36 11000 792 98% 9 44.2 33% 0.01 4.0% comp.std.unix 37 7500 544 98% 28 32.7 33% 0.01 2.8% comp.sys.dec 38 6900 496 52% 3 50.1 33% 0.01 2.5% gnu.announce 39 2400 176 96% 9 8.3 33% 0.01 0.9% comp.sys.ti 40 23000 1657 97% 118 127.1 32% 0.01 8.4% misc.wanted