Xref: utzoo news.lists:745 news.groups:8739 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 POPULARITY (MAR 89) Message-ID: <1309@bacchus.dec.com> Date: 5 Apr 89 09:19:53 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 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 59000 3071 93% 58 145.4 0% 0.00 13.8% rec.humor.funny 2 50000 2577 97% 45 266.8 0% 0.01 11.5% news.announce.conferences 3 46000 2365 94% 182 354.2 8% 0.01 10.6% misc.jobs.offered 4 43000 2253 98% 83 3452.5 4% 0.13 10.1% comp.sources.unix 5 41000 2137 96% 1144 1711.8 12% 0.07 9.6% comp.sys.ibm.pc 6 40000 2100 63% 1136 1967.6 29% 0.05 9.4% alt.sex 7 39000 2045 85% 784 1152.5 7% 0.04 9.2% rec.humor 8 36000 1885 97% 1573 2329.1 9% 0.10 8.4% comp.sys.mac 9 35000 1839 98% 6 73.7 0% 0.00 8.2% news.announce.newusers 10 34000 1743 87% 447 508.0 26% 0.02 7.8% misc.forsale 11 32000 1688 98% 4 13.1 75% 0.00 7.6% news.announce.important 12 29000 1499 98% 47 688.5 0% 0.04 6.7% comp.sources.misc 13 29000 1485 96% 579 896.0 9% 0.05 6.6% comp.lang.c 14 28000 1474 96% 351 789.9 14% 0.04 6.6% comp.graphics 15 28000 1464 97% 124 239.2 11% 0.01 6.6% comp.sources.d 16 28000 1429 92% 968 1372.2 6% 0.07 6.4% rec.arts.movies 17 27000 1413 96% 189 213.5 32% 0.01 6.3% misc.wanted 18 27000 1387 98% 290 560.5 16% 0.03 6.2% comp.unix.wizards 19 27000 1377 98% 820 1592.1 30% 0.09 6.2% news.groups 20 26000 1356 85% 1963 4226.6 17% 0.23 6.1% soc.singles 21 25000 1308 95% 268 548.4 37% 0.03 5.9% comp.misc 22 25000 1307 96% 486 715.5 18% 0.05 5.9% comp.unix.questions 23 25000 1293 97% 22 737.1 0% 0.05 5.8% comp.sources.games 24 25000 1273 94% 106 3565.1 0% 0.22 5.7% comp.binaries.ibm.pc 25 24000 1261 98% 273 634.3 17% 0.04 5.6% news.admin 26 24000 1261 94% 208 347.8 15% 0.02 5.6% misc.jobs.misc 27 24000 1226 87% 414 715.1 23% 0.04 5.5% misc.consumers 28 23000 1214 97% 517 1084.1 13% 0.07 5.4% comp.arch 29 23000 1206 98% 75 132.1 57% 0.01 5.4% news.misc 30 23000 1197 82% 110 2705.1 10% 0.16 5.4% alt.sources 31 22000 1159 88% 1155 2180.5 4% 0.14 5.2% rec.arts.startrek 32 22000 1137 97% 245 264.9 23% 0.02 5.1% comp.sources.wanted 33 22000 1123 96% 75 2349.2 0% 0.17 5.0% comp.binaries.mac 34 21000 1096 95% 1348 2349.8 5% 0.18 4.9% comp.sys.amiga 35 20000 1038 97% 32 129.4 3% 0.01 4.6% comp.newprod 36 20000 1036 98% 46 320.1 5% 0.03 4.6% comp.sources.bugs 37 20000 1034 91% 151 215.6 7% 0.02 4.6% comp.sys.next 38 19000 1010 98% 13 278.2 0% 0.02 4.5% comp.risks 39 19000 971 95% 215 320.5 27% 0.03 4.3% sci.electronics 40 19000 970 85% 496 1220.5 24% 0.09 4.3% soc.women