Xref: utzoo news.lists:743 news.groups:8737 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!decwrl!reid From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups Subject: TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY AMOUNT OF CROSSPOSTING (JAN 89) Message-ID: <1303@bacchus.dec.com> Date: 5 Apr 89 09:19:36 GMT Sender: vixie@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 2500 130 95% 1 0.9 100% 0.00 0.6% rec.mag.otherrealms 2 16000 829 84% 107 269.3 87% 0.02 3.9% rec.humor.d 3 8800 461 97% 7 9.6 71% 0.00 2.2% comp.text.desktop 4 3600 189 77% 31 88.3 59% 0.03 0.9% talk.politics.soviet 5 4300 222 86% 88 196.1 53% 0.06 1.1% soc.culture.arabic 6 3600 187 76% 18 37.1 53% 0.01 0.9% comp.theory.dynamic-sys 7 12000 633 87% 506 1218.3 52% 0.15 3.0% misc.headlines 8 8500 444 94% 83 176.0 50% 0.03 2.1% sci.research 9 5700 295 97% 2 1.9 50% 0.00 1.4% comp.std.misc 10 5100 267 97% 6 7.7 50% 0.00 1.3% comp.org.decus 11 13000 668 95% 191 345.2 47% 0.04 3.2% comp.sys.att 12 13000 673 98% 66 86.2 45% 0.01 3.2% comp.mail.misc 13 4500 235 77% 9 23.1 44% 0.01 1.1% comp.lsi.cad 14 6100 320 95% 20 39.4 42% 0.01 1.5% comp.lsi 15 77 4 1% 5 8.1 40% 0.00 0.0% unix-pc.bugs 16 15000 791 96% 54 81.5 39% 0.01 3.7% comp.periphs 17 4000 208 92% 48 82.1 38% 0.03 1.0% rec.games.pbm 18 6000 314 89% 55 82.9 37% 0.02 1.5% sci.logic 19 9300 484 97% 9 14.7 33% 0.00 2.3% comp.protocols.misc 20 5200 270 65% 9 9.2 33% 0.00 1.3% gnu.config 21 4400 229 97% 35 50.9 33% 0.02 1.1% comp.os.os9 22 1800 93 94% 3 2.5 33% 0.00 0.4% comp.os.eunice 23 1100 60 94% 3 2.7 33% 0.00 0.3% comp.sys.ridge 24 750 39 44% 3 3.9 33% 0.00 0.2% bionet.molbio.gene-express 25 8500 442 67% 156 190.9 32% 0.03 2.1% alt.rock-n-roll 26 190 10 0% 177 316.6 32% 0.02 0.0% unix-pc.general 27 31000 1634 96% 166 177.0 31% 0.01 7.7% misc.wanted 28 19000 983 94% 262 485.4 31% 0.04 4.7% misc.misc 29 14000 709 86% 406 801.7 31% 0.08 3.4% misc.kids 30 11000 585 94% 34 52.8 31% 0.01 2.8% comp.fonts 31 11000 568 95% 62 128.9 31% 0.02 2.7% sci.misc 32 8700 455 97% 45 62.7 31% 0.01 2.2% comp.sys.dec 33 4100 215 83% 45 85.7 31% 0.03 1.0% talk.philosophy.misc 34 7000 364 93% 100 118.4 30% 0.03 1.7% rec.games.trivia 35 13000 675 96% 22 47.9 29% 0.01 3.2% comp.windows.misc 36 38000 1975 84% 1029 1458.6 28% 0.05 9.3% rec.humor 37 9400 489 82% 19 39.8 28% 0.01 2.3% comp.editors 38 26000 1377 98% 387 675.3 27% 0.04 6.5% news.groups 39 9000 471 96% 54 64.5 27% 0.01 2.2% comp.terminals 40 3700 195 96% 32 48.1 27% 0.02 0.9% comp.sys.pyramid