Xref: utzoo news.lists:611 news.groups:5941 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!decwrl!reid From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups Subject: TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY (OCT 88) Message-ID: <16084@decwrl.dec.com> Date: 17 Apr 89 00:56:34 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 51000 3634 99% 18 92.1 0% 0.00 16.3% news.announce.conferences 2 38000 2691 88% 76 136.8 0% 0.01 12.1% rec.humor.funny 3 35000 2509 97% 405 567.0 30% 0.03 11.3% comp.unix.questions 4 33000 2347 95% 130 283.9 5% 0.01 10.5% misc.jobs.offered 5 33000 2339 99% 9 438.0 0% 0.02 10.5% comp.sources.unix 6 33000 2308 99% 5 56.2 0% 0.00 10.4% news.announce.newusers 7 31000 2213 96% 921 1455.4 17% 0.08 9.9% comp.sys.ibm.pc 8 31000 2169 59% 720 1324.6 6% 0.04 9.7% alt.sex 9 29000 2085 99% 54 1248.2 0% 0.08 9.4% comp.sources.misc 10 28000 1978 85% 705 856.3 9% 0.05 8.9% rec.humor 11 26000 1858 89% 421 458.8 34% 0.03 8.3% misc.forsale 12 25000 1797 97% 1330 2010.6 13% 0.14 8.1% comp.sys.mac 13 25000 1796 97% 651 1103.5 9% 0.08 8.1% comp.lang.c 14 25000 1771 97% 152 156.1 37% 0.01 8.0% misc.wanted 15 25000 1740 99% 514 776.0 14% 0.05 7.8% comp.unix.wizards 16 23000 1610 99% 160 233.1 18% 0.02 7.2% comp.sources.d 17 22000 1541 97% 178 360.6 37% 0.03 6.9% comp.misc 18 22000 1536 97% 221 400.6 27% 0.03 6.9% comp.graphics 19 22000 1535 98% 522 1136.8 24% 0.09 6.9% comp.arch 20 21000 1525 99% 213 229.1 27% 0.02 6.8% comp.sources.wanted 21 21000 1486 98% 402 672.4 22% 0.06 6.7% news.groups 22 20000 1401 98% 215 383.2 23% 0.03 6.3% news.admin 23 19000 1334 87% 1067 1844.3 6% 0.15 6.0% soc.singles 24 19000 1331 95% 36 1246.7 0% 0.11 6.0% comp.binaries.ibm.pc 25 19000 1327 98% 13 686.7 0% 0.06 6.0% comp.sources.games 26 18000 1265 98% 79 140.2 27% 0.01 5.7% news.misc 27 18000 1263 89% 483 799.3 22% 0.07 5.7% misc.consumers 28 17000 1231 96% 112 154.9 16% 0.02 5.5% misc.misc 29 17000 1229 98% 152 308.9 14% 0.03 5.5% comp.lang.c++ 30 17000 1177 99% 49 191.8 11% 0.02 5.3% comp.sources.bugs 31 16000 1165 95% 112 170.8 3% 0.02 5.2% misc.jobs.misc 32 16000 1135 98% 22 71.5 0% 0.01 5.1% comp.newprod 33 16000 1120 94% 763 1588.5 4% 0.17 5.0% rec.arts.sf-lovers 34 16000 1103 88% 935 1495.1 3% 0.15 5.0% rec.arts.startrek 35 15000 1097 96% 145 216.8 15% 0.02 4.9% comp.ai 36 15000 1095 97% 68 1813.0 0% 0.21 4.9% comp.binaries.mac 37 15000 1083 88% 311 465.2 3% 0.05 4.9% misc.consumers.house 38 15000 1075 96% 1326 2327.4 7% 0.26 4.8% comp.sys.amiga 39 15000 1049 87% 71 221.5 13% 0.02 4.7% rec.nude 40 15000 1046 89% 635 817.9 8% 0.09 4.7% rec.arts.movies