Xref: utzoo news.lists:612 news.groups:5942 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 PER-READER COST (OCT 88) Message-ID: <16085@decwrl.dec.com> Date: 17 Apr 89 00:56:40 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 8600 608 85% 2806 6453.8 19% 1.10 2.7% talk.politics.misc 2 2800 201 79% 736 2013.6 7% 1.00 0.9% talk.politics.mideast 3 6100 434 91% 158 2540.0 0% 0.67 1.9% comp.mail.maps 4 3700 264 84% 649 1596.5 2% 0.64 1.2% talk.abortion 5 6000 427 89% 1058 2184.0 4% 0.57 1.9% soc.culture.china 6 6100 434 95% 46 1996.9 0% 0.55 1.9% comp.sources.amiga 7 4200 298 85% 622 1467.4 6% 0.52 1.3% talk.religion.misc 8 6300 450 94% 621 1722.1 1% 0.45 2.0% rec.games.frp 9 7100 506 88% 956 1817.3 6% 0.40 2.3% rec.arts.comics 10 6400 456 95% 41 1365.9 10% 0.36 2.0% comp.binaries.amiga 11 6700 478 87% 666 1388.9 2% 0.32 2.1% rec.sport.baseball 12 6300 444 95% 34 1203.0 3% 0.32 2.0% comp.binaries.atari.st 13 4800 342 93% 388 932.8 10% 0.32 1.5% soc.culture.jewish 14 1800 128 96% 15 342.6 0% 0.32 0.6% rec.mag.otherrealms 15 8400 599 86% 861 1724.9 6% 0.31 2.7% soc.motss 16 7300 520 93% 622 1357.1 2% 0.30 2.3% soc.culture.indian 17 3700 263 91% 423 701.2 9% 0.30 1.2% rec.music.beatles 18 9800 695 98% 664 1573.1 8% 0.28 3.1% comp.os.vms 19 6000 428 96% 36 966.0 85% 0.27 1.9% comp.lsi 20 2300 166 87% 184 403.8 1% 0.27 0.7% rec.railroad 21 15000 1075 96% 1326 2327.4 7% 0.26 4.8% comp.sys.amiga 22 7900 561 89% 697 1306.2 2% 0.26 2.5% rec.aviation 23 7900 561 94% 577 1163.3 6% 0.25 2.5% rec.ham-radio 24 4000 285 87% 378 662.8 1% 0.25 1.3% rec.sport.basketball 25 2600 187 87% 185 422.7 0% 0.25 0.8% misc.handicap 26 11000 754 80% 1727 1826.6 2% 0.24 3.4% talk.bizarre 27 8500 605 85% 560 1335.8 35% 0.24 2.7% soc.men 28 4100 289 87% 360 645.1 0% 0.24 1.3% rec.motorcycles 29 5800 415 87% 576 871.6 0% 0.23 1.9% rec.arts.tv.soaps 30 6300 444 87% 505 912.9 4% 0.22 2.0% rec.sport.football 31 15000 1095 97% 68 1813.0 0% 0.21 4.9% comp.binaries.mac 32 13000 898 94% 885 1648.2 9% 0.21 4.0% rec.music.misc 33 5300 378 88% 384 708.3 7% 0.21 1.7% rec.arts.drwho 34 3700 263 98% 67 459.1 13% 0.21 1.2% comp.os.os9 35 14000 959 88% 946 1760.6 19% 0.20 4.3% rec.autos 36 10000 713 98% 252 1136.4 3% 0.20 3.2% comp.os.minix 37 3400 242 84% 187 465.5 2% 0.20 1.1% talk.origins 38 3400 239 58% 203 653.7 1% 0.20 1.1% gnu.gcc.bug 39 3000 216 93% 174 345.0 11% 0.19 1.0% soc.culture.celtic 40 9700 692 89% 426 1114.5 51% 0.18 3.1% misc.headlines