Xref: utzoo news.lists:666 news.groups:6677 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 AMOUNT OF CROSSPOSTING (DEC 88) Message-ID: <16964@decwrl.dec.com> Date: 1 Jan 89 12:09:26 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 3200 209 96% 1 1.2 100% 0.00 0.9% comp.std.internat 2 2400 159 95% 3 4.6 100% 0.00 0.7% rec.mag.otherrealms 3 10000 674 96% 139 311.9 91% 0.05 2.8% comp.windows.misc 4 3900 251 72% 4 4.6 75% 0.00 1.1% alt.hypertext 5 7500 487 98% 13 17.8 69% 0.00 2.0% comp.sys.dec 6 6700 436 87% 13 31.0 69% 0.01 1.8% rec.misc 7 8700 566 98% 6 8.7 67% 0.00 2.4% comp.bugs.sys5 8 2900 191 64% 3 3.0 67% 0.00 0.8% comp.unix.cray 9 2000 132 77% 3 36.6 67% 0.02 0.6% comp.theory.dynamic-sys 10 11000 687 96% 230 618.8 65% 0.10 2.9% comp.edu 11 1100 73 54% 5 9.3 60% 0.01 0.3% alt.great-lakes 12 77 5 1% 5 7.8 60% 0.00 0.0% unix-pc.bugs 13 9100 593 87% 301 684.0 59% 0.12 2.5% misc.headlines 14 2900 187 78% 126 386.2 58% 0.18 0.8% talk.politics.soviet 15 12000 800 96% 121 213.8 56% 0.03 3.4% sci.misc 16 6300 410 86% 73 90.3 54% 0.02 1.7% soc.net-people 17 17000 1120 98% 18 159.6 53% 0.02 4.7% news.lists 18 14000 883 98% 92 190.5 53% 0.02 3.7% news.sysadmin 19 4200 270 69% 24 28.8 52% 0.01 1.1% alt.config 20 5800 375 98% 4 5.3 50% 0.00 1.6% comp.bugs.misc 21 3000 194 94% 2 1.9 50% 0.00 0.8% rec.games.trivia 22 1800 120 61% 10 14.8 50% 0.01 0.5% sci.bio.technology 23 25000 1609 97% 129 129.0 44% 0.01 6.7% misc.wanted 24 10000 649 96% 167 266.7 44% 0.05 2.7% comp.sys.att 25 4200 276 95% 19 31.7 44% 0.01 1.2% sci.philosophy.tech 26 32000 2088 87% 295 331.6 43% 0.02 8.8% misc.forsale 27 15000 951 98% 90 134.5 43% 0.02 4.0% comp.dcom.lans 28 4300 277 97% 24 343.7 43% 0.14 1.2% comp.os.os9 29 17000 1114 95% 122 188.0 40% 0.02 4.7% misc.misc 30 5600 364 96% 16 20.4 40% 0.01 1.5% comp.lsi 31 1900 125 95% 5 4.8 40% 0.00 0.5% comp.sys.ti 32 23000 1471 98% 206 465.3 38% 0.04 6.2% news.admin 33 14000 910 83% 91 116.9 38% 0.01 3.8% rec.humor.d 34 17000 1120 96% 75 186.2 37% 0.02 4.7% comp.periphs 35 3000 194 51% 28 56.3 37% 0.02 0.8% alt.activism 36 8100 528 87% 83 147.0 36% 0.03 2.2% misc.taxes 37 4100 268 79% 11 21.1 36% 0.01 1.1% comp.sys.handhelds 38 12000 802 98% 116 196.3 35% 0.03 3.4% comp.dcom.modems 39 6600 430 95% 234 555.3 35% 0.14 1.8% sci.lang 40 150 10 1% 145 250.4 35% 0.03 0.0% unix-pc.general