Xref: utzoo news.lists:614 news.groups:5944 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 TRAFFIC VOLUME (OCT 88) Message-ID: <16087@decwrl.dec.com> Date: 17 Apr 89 00:56:51 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 8600 608 85% 2806 6453.8 19% 1.10 2.7% talk.politics.misc 2 6100 434 91% 158 2540.0 0% 0.67 1.9% comp.mail.maps 3 15000 1075 96% 1326 2327.4 7% 0.26 4.8% comp.sys.amiga 4 6000 427 89% 1058 2184.0 4% 0.57 1.9% soc.culture.china 5 2800 201 79% 736 2013.6 7% 1.00 0.9% talk.politics.mideast 6 25000 1797 97% 1330 2010.6 13% 0.14 8.1% comp.sys.mac 7 6100 434 95% 46 1996.9 0% 0.55 1.9% comp.sources.amiga 8 19000 1334 87% 1067 1844.3 6% 0.15 6.0% soc.singles 9 11000 754 80% 1727 1826.6 2% 0.24 3.4% talk.bizarre 10 7100 506 88% 956 1817.3 6% 0.40 2.3% rec.arts.comics 11 15000 1095 97% 68 1813.0 0% 0.21 4.9% comp.binaries.mac 12 14000 959 88% 946 1760.6 19% 0.20 4.3% rec.autos 13 8400 599 86% 861 1724.9 6% 0.31 2.7% soc.motss 14 6300 450 94% 621 1722.1 1% 0.45 2.0% rec.games.frp 15 13000 898 94% 885 1648.2 9% 0.21 4.0% rec.music.misc 16 3700 264 84% 649 1596.5 2% 0.64 1.2% talk.abortion 17 16000 1120 94% 763 1588.5 4% 0.17 5.0% rec.arts.sf-lovers 18 9800 695 98% 664 1573.1 8% 0.28 3.1% comp.os.vms 19 16000 1103 88% 935 1495.1 3% 0.15 5.0% rec.arts.startrek 20 4200 298 85% 622 1467.4 6% 0.52 1.3% talk.religion.misc 21 31000 2213 96% 921 1455.4 17% 0.08 9.9% comp.sys.ibm.pc 22 6700 478 87% 666 1388.9 2% 0.32 2.1% rec.sport.baseball 23 6400 456 95% 41 1365.9 10% 0.36 2.0% comp.binaries.amiga 24 7300 520 93% 622 1357.1 2% 0.30 2.3% soc.culture.indian 25 8500 605 85% 560 1335.8 35% 0.24 2.7% soc.men 26 180 13 0% 37 1332.0 3% 0.10 0.1% unix-pc.sources 27 31000 2169 59% 720 1324.6 6% 0.04 9.7% alt.sex 28 7900 561 89% 697 1306.2 2% 0.26 2.5% rec.aviation 29 13000 935 96% 637 1301.2 9% 0.17 4.2% sci.space 30 12000 851 89% 633 1248.6 36% 0.16 3.8% misc.kids 31 29000 2085 99% 54 1248.2 0% 0.08 9.4% comp.sources.misc 32 19000 1331 95% 36 1246.7 0% 0.11 6.0% comp.binaries.ibm.pc 33 6300 444 95% 34 1203.0 3% 0.32 2.0% comp.binaries.atari.st 34 7900 561 94% 577 1163.3 6% 0.25 2.5% rec.ham-radio 35 22000 1535 98% 522 1136.8 24% 0.09 6.9% comp.arch 36 10000 713 98% 252 1136.4 3% 0.20 3.2% comp.os.minix 37 9700 692 89% 426 1114.5 51% 0.18 3.1% misc.headlines 38 25000 1796 97% 651 1103.5 9% 0.08 8.1% comp.lang.c 39 7900 558 26% 519 1018.3 5% 0.06 2.5% comp.sys.next 40 6000 428 96% 36 966.0 85% 0.27 1.9% comp.lsi