Xref: utzoo news.lists:665 news.groups:6676 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 PER-READER COST (DEC 88) Message-ID: <16963@decwrl.dec.com> Date: 1 Jan 89 12:09:21 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 6600 429 95% 103 5333.0 0% 1.40 1.8% comp.binaries.amiga 2 3100 204 79% 687 1695.1 12% 0.76 0.9% talk.politics.mideast 3 4700 305 84% 893 2245.3 3% 0.71 1.3% talk.religion.misc 4 6700 433 89% 156 2342.9 0% 0.55 1.8% comp.mail.maps 5 5600 361 98% 142 1358.9 8% 0.42 1.5% comp.mail.elm 6 3900 251 63% 125 1325.1 0% 0.38 1.1% gnu.gcc.bug 7 3000 197 91% 26 704.6 0% 0.38 0.8% comp.binaries.apple2 8 9700 629 84% 1016 2342.8 27% 0.36 2.6% talk.politics.misc 9 3200 206 84% 288 785.0 4% 0.36 0.9% talk.origins 10 9800 635 98% 226 1746.8 4% 0.31 2.7% comp.os.minix 11 9600 621 98% 468 1731.2 3% 0.31 2.6% comp.os.vms 12 8000 522 93% 490 1340.0 1% 0.28 2.2% rec.games.frp 13 10000 663 85% 982 1817.3 2% 0.27 2.8% soc.motss 14 9000 588 90% 687 1504.5 5% 0.27 2.5% soc.culture.china 15 2300 152 62% 311 549.7 0% 0.26 0.6% alt.sca 16 17000 1128 96% 1444 2524.0 8% 0.25 4.7% comp.sys.amiga 17 6900 447 93% 456 1059.3 15% 0.25 1.9% soc.culture.jewish 18 20000 1276 86% 1809 3102.4 6% 0.24 5.3% soc.singles 19 18000 1196 87% 1093 2772.8 0% 0.24 5.0% rec.arts.startrek 20 14000 942 94% 45 2016.6 0% 0.24 3.9% comp.sources.x 21 10000 671 80% 1557 1685.6 6% 0.24 2.8% talk.bizarre 22 8700 565 84% 638 1409.6 13% 0.24 2.4% soc.men 23 2700 176 95% 11 393.3 0% 0.24 0.7% comp.sources.atari.st 24 7300 476 96% 31 985.9 0% 0.23 2.0% comp.sources.amiga 25 3000 197 95% 166 412.3 0% 0.23 0.8% rec.music.gaffa 26 12000 801 87% 822 1748.0 27% 0.22 3.4% soc.women 27 5800 377 93% 469 791.8 5% 0.22 1.6% rec.music.gdead 28 2100 138 86% 30 307.1 0% 0.22 0.6% soc.roots 29 8400 543 85% 607 1182.7 0% 0.21 2.3% rec.sport.football 30 4500 294 86% 334 621.9 5% 0.21 1.2% rec.motorcycles 31 7300 474 88% 543 947.2 1% 0.20 2.0% rec.aviation 32 5000 325 85% 388 668.5 0% 0.20 1.4% rec.sport.basketball 33 3900 256 95% 98 458.0 5% 0.20 1.1% comp.sys.atari.8bit 34 2700 175 84% 165 350.3 1% 0.19 0.7% talk.abortion 35 9800 634 93% 496 1065.4 4% 0.18 2.7% soc.culture.indian 36 7800 505 95% 406 838.9 3% 0.18 2.1% rec.music.classical 37 7500 485 95% 25 795.1 0% 0.18 2.0% comp.binaries.atari.st 38 6600 430 87% 413 779.1 9% 0.18 1.8% rec.arts.comics 39 6400 418 85% 391 755.5 0% 0.18 1.8% rec.arts.tv.soaps 40 2900 187 78% 126 386.2 58% 0.18 0.8% talk.politics.soviet