Xref: utzoo news.lists:613 news.groups:5943 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 AMOUNT OF CROSSPOSTING (OCT 88) Message-ID: <16086@decwrl.dec.com> Date: 17 Apr 89 00:56:46 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 428 96% 36 966.0 85% 0.27 1.9% comp.lsi 2 3400 239 96% 34 202.7 78% 0.10 1.1% comp.sys.m6809 3 13000 948 97% 144 270.2 76% 0.04 4.3% comp.sys.misc 4 7800 552 79% 47 109.6 75% 0.02 2.5% comp.music 5 7300 521 96% 7 14.5 71% 0.00 2.3% sci.research 6 5000 355 98% 5 5.6 60% 0.00 1.6% comp.org.decus 7 13000 950 96% 57 79.7 59% 0.01 4.3% comp.periphs 8 200 14 0% 118 229.7 59% 0.02 0.1% unix-pc.general 9 7200 513 96% 7 10.2 57% 0.00 2.3% comp.protocols.iso 10 2100 146 85% 58 138.1 55% 0.10 0.7% soc.culture.arabic 11 9700 692 89% 426 1114.5 51% 0.18 3.1% misc.headlines 12 5900 421 87% 2 1.5 50% 0.00 1.9% sci.logic 13 4100 294 97% 8 6.6 50% 0.00 1.3% comp.sys.pyramid 14 3900 274 69% 2 2.7 50% 0.00 1.2% alt.config 15 2100 146 84% 4 37.2 50% 0.03 0.7% rec.arts.int-fiction 16 1700 122 56% 2 2.2 50% 0.00 0.5% comp.protocols.pcnet 17 1500 104 40% 26 58.9 48% 0.03 0.5% alt.rhode_island 18 13000 943 98% 18 141.0 47% 0.02 4.2% news.lists 19 7300 516 92% 47 67.6 43% 0.02 2.3% comp.fonts 20 4000 283 85% 8 9.0 38% 0.00 1.3% news.software.nntp 21 3000 211 85% 68 171.4 38% 0.09 0.9% talk.philosophy.misc 22 25000 1771 97% 152 156.1 37% 0.01 8.0% misc.wanted 23 22000 1541 97% 178 360.6 37% 0.03 6.9% comp.misc 24 8000 569 98% 20 33.8 37% 0.01 2.6% comp.sys.dec 25 14000 1019 99% 110 181.8 36% 0.02 4.6% comp.dcom.lans 26 12000 851 89% 633 1248.6 36% 0.16 3.8% misc.kids 27 7400 525 95% 65 122.7 36% 0.03 2.4% comp.mail.sendmail 28 3200 225 95% 15 26.6 36% 0.01 1.0% comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt 29 8500 605 85% 560 1335.8 35% 0.24 2.7% soc.men 30 26000 1858 89% 421 458.8 34% 0.03 8.3% misc.forsale 31 9100 645 96% 31 47.4 34% 0.01 2.9% comp.edu 32 14000 1027 97% 193 296.7 32% 0.04 4.6% sci.electronics 33 10000 742 96% 246 420.2 32% 0.07 3.3% sci.physics 34 5300 374 94% 107 174.2 32% 0.05 1.7% rec.music.folk 35 35000 2509 97% 405 567.0 30% 0.03 11.3% comp.unix.questions 36 11000 773 98% 64 92.0 30% 0.01 3.5% comp.mail.misc 37 11000 759 98% 46 69.5 30% 0.01 3.4% news.software.b 38 4000 284 91% 42 69.4 30% 0.03 1.3% soc.culture.japan 39 11000 755 96% 40 84.9 29% 0.01 3.4% comp.os.misc 40 11000 754 96% 126 207.1 28% 0.03 3.4% sci.astro