Xref: utzoo news.lists:588 news.groups:5545 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 TRAFFIC VOLUME (SEP 88) Message-ID: <15415@decwrl.DEC.COM> Date: 2 Oct 88 17:40:31 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 TRAFFIC VOLUME 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 28000 2046 96% 1265 2619.1 13% 0.16 10.4% comp.sys.ibm.pc 3 26000 1874 99% 75 2607.6 0% 0.18 9.5% comp.sources.misc 4 5800 419 91% 142 2346.6 0% 0.66 2.1% comp.mail.maps 5 6200 450 88% 980 2012.8 8% 0.51 2.3% rec.arts.comics 6 11000 822 79% 40 2005.7 0% 0.26 4.2% comp.sources.x 7 15000 1108 94% 1029 1958.3 5% 0.22 5.6% rec.arts.sf-lovers 8 14000 1022 96% 1103 1923.9 8% 0.24 5.2% comp.sys.amiga 9 24000 1741 98% 1203 1864.1 11% 0.14 8.8% comp.sys.mac 10 4300 311 85% 685 1769.4 19% 0.63 1.6% talk.religion.misc 11 28000 1990 99% 38 1722.1 8% 0.11 10.1% comp.sources.unix 12 10000 736 81% 1622 1706.3 3% 0.25 3.7% talk.bizarre 13 5900 422 94% 579 1635.5 2% 0.47 2.1% rec.games.frp 14 12000 869 94% 1029 1586.8 8% 0.22 4.4% rec.music.misc 15 18000 1308 87% 964 1572.0 11% 0.14 6.6% soc.singles 16 8400 602 98% 688 1510.3 9% 0.32 3.1% comp.os.vms 17 8700 626 98% 244 1464.3 0% 0.30 3.2% comp.os.minix 18 7800 559 87% 685 1435.6 0% 0.29 2.8% soc.motss 19 7600 548 95% 45 1410.1 0% 0.32 2.8% comp.binaries.atari.st 20 15000 1079 97% 42 1387.3 0% 0.16 5.5% comp.binaries.mac 21 14000 991 96% 439 1375.7 2% 0.17 5.0% comp.sys.atari.st 22 3100 225 79% 507 1327.3 10% 0.61 1.1% talk.politics.mideast 23 6600 479 90% 648 1314.3 3% 0.32 2.4% soc.culture.china 24 8000 574 89% 740 1272.1 0% 0.25 2.9% rec.aviation 25 13000 916 88% 721 1252.5 14% 0.15 4.6% rec.autos 26 7600 549 94% 287 1241.8 4% 0.28 2.8% rec.music.synth 27 23000 1693 97% 708 1221.6 16% 0.09 8.6% comp.lang.c 28 14000 1008 88% 661 1156.7 6% 0.13 5.1% rec.arts.startrek 29 12000 880 96% 550 1077.4 22% 0.15 4.5% sci.space 30 14000 1027 88% 652 1053.8 16% 0.12 5.2% rec.arts.movies 31 7500 538 57% 589 1031.9 9% 0.14 2.7% alt.flame 32 6300 454 86% 567 1020.6 1% 0.25 2.3% rec.sport.football 33 18000 1289 96% 37 1005.7 3% 0.10 6.5% comp.binaries.ibm.pc 34 11000 793 87% 503 1001.6 10% 0.14 4.0% soc.women 35 20000 1464 97% 177 933.1 10% 0.08 7.4% comp.graphics 36 6700 482 87% 547 906.0 0% 0.21 2.4% rec.bicycles 37 7600 550 94% 448 868.1 6% 0.19 2.8% rec.ham-radio 38 24000 1729 99% 536 853.9 12% 0.06 8.8% comp.unix.wizards 39 5000 362 94% 580 845.1 3% 0.28 1.8% rec.music.gdead 40 6800 487 93% 417 836.7 4% 0.21 2.5% soc.culture.indian