Xref: utzoo news.lists:664 news.groups:6675 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!purdue!decwrl!reid From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups Subject: TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY (DEC 88) Message-ID: <16962@decwrl.dec.com> Date: 1 Jan 89 12:09:15 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 53000 3457 98% 22 91.6 0% 0.00 14.5% news.announce.conferences 2 43000 2771 87% 52 107.6 0% 0.00 11.6% rec.humor.funny 3 42000 2711 97% 1006 1925.9 13% 0.08 11.4% comp.sys.ibm.pc 4 38000 2448 95% 130 266.2 7% 0.01 10.3% misc.jobs.offered 5 37000 2400 99% 6 72.0 0% 0.00 10.1% news.announce.newusers 6 35000 2276 97% 377 510.2 14% 0.02 9.5% comp.unix.questions 7 34000 2211 98% 55 1667.0 2% 0.08 9.3% comp.sources.unix 8 32000 2088 87% 295 331.6 43% 0.02 8.8% misc.forsale 9 32000 2086 98% 33 972.4 0% 0.05 8.7% comp.sources.misc 10 31000 2036 59% 485 705.6 10% 0.02 8.5% alt.sex 11 30000 1933 84% 773 3247.8 3% 0.16 8.1% rec.humor 12 28000 1823 98% 165 336.9 25% 0.02 7.6% news.groups 13 28000 1793 99% 559 1134.4 15% 0.07 7.5% comp.unix.wizards 14 27000 1754 97% 645 1156.6 11% 0.07 7.4% comp.lang.c 15 26000 1690 97% 1014 1636.1 13% 0.11 7.1% comp.sys.mac 16 25000 1609 97% 129 129.0 44% 0.01 6.7% misc.wanted 17 24000 1573 97% 180 476.1 14% 0.03 6.6% comp.misc 18 24000 1557 98% 105 144.8 14% 0.01 6.5% comp.sources.d 19 24000 1550 98% 118 214.7 29% 0.02 6.5% news.misc 20 23000 1509 97% 203 381.7 14% 0.03 6.3% comp.graphics 21 23000 1471 98% 206 465.3 38% 0.04 6.2% news.admin 22 22000 1455 98% 267 688.0 15% 0.05 6.1% comp.arch 23 22000 1401 96% 31 1062.3 0% 0.08 5.9% comp.binaries.ibm.pc 24 21000 1387 97% 4 117.1 0% 0.01 5.8% comp.sources.games 25 21000 1376 80% 147 282.7 11% 0.02 5.8% comp.sys.next 26 21000 1354 98% 201 206.1 29% 0.02 5.7% comp.sources.wanted 27 21000 1333 87% 323 496.4 21% 0.04 5.6% misc.consumers 28 20000 1276 86% 1809 3102.4 6% 0.24 5.3% soc.singles 29 19000 1212 95% 103 174.7 4% 0.02 5.1% misc.jobs.misc 30 19000 1206 81% 21 29.4 5% 0.00 5.1% alt.sources 31 18000 1196 87% 1093 2772.8 0% 0.24 5.0% rec.arts.startrek 32 17000 1131 98% 16 117.1 0% 0.01 4.7% comp.sources.bugs 33 17000 1128 96% 1444 2524.0 8% 0.25 4.7% comp.sys.amiga 34 17000 1127 87% 267 428.8 13% 0.04 4.7% misc.consumers.house 35 17000 1120 98% 18 159.6 53% 0.02 4.7% news.lists 36 17000 1120 96% 75 186.2 37% 0.02 4.7% comp.periphs 37 17000 1119 98% 13 290.9 0% 0.03 4.7% comp.risks 38 17000 1119 95% 48 225.2 4% 0.02 4.7% misc.jobs.resumes 39 17000 1114 95% 122 188.0 40% 0.02 4.7% misc.misc 40 17000 1097 88% 510 887.4 17% 0.08 4.6% rec.arts.movies