Xref: utzoo news.lists:746 news.groups:8740 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 PER-READER COST (JAN 89) Message-ID: <1302@bacchus.dec.com> Date: 5 Apr 89 09:19:32 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 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 344 90% 129 2412.3 0% 0.54 1.6% comp.mail.maps 2 6500 337 83% 923 2226.6 5% 0.47 1.6% talk.religion.misc 3 5200 271 78% 791 1862.0 13% 0.46 1.3% talk.politics.mideast 4 4300 223 90% 49 1157.7 4% 0.40 1.1% comp.binaries.apple2 5 12000 643 83% 1150 3221.6 26% 0.37 3.0% talk.politics.misc 6 6900 359 85% 1027 1726.5 1% 0.35 1.7% rec.sport.basketball 7 3900 202 82% 493 1016.5 5% 0.35 1.0% talk.abortion 8 11000 569 88% 1256 2455.3 4% 0.33 2.7% soc.culture.china 9 8900 467 93% 712 1834.9 1% 0.32 2.2% rec.games.frp 10 21000 1087 95% 113 3732.8 0% 0.28 5.1% comp.binaries.ibm.pc 11 4500 233 82% 293 935.7 22% 0.28 1.1% talk.politics.theory 12 3700 191 64% 360 884.4 1% 0.25 0.9% alt.sca 13 14000 709 80% 2123 2435.4 5% 0.23 3.4% talk.bizarre 14 11000 578 85% 1014 1830.7 1% 0.23 2.7% soc.motss 15 9700 508 95% 901 1404.3 3% 0.23 2.4% comp.sys.apple 16 9300 484 93% 687 1408.7 5% 0.23 2.3% rec.ham-radio 17 14000 706 91% 920 2027.7 9% 0.22 3.3% soc.culture.indian 18 5000 260 87% 443 720.3 0% 0.21 1.2% rec.motorcycles 19 17000 901 93% 1397 2192.8 9% 0.20 4.3% rec.music.misc 20 13000 673 97% 285 1615.0 17% 0.20 3.2% comp.emacs 21 12000 609 98% 358 1502.0 1% 0.20 2.9% comp.os.minix 22 12000 604 97% 654 1481.3 4% 0.20 2.9% comp.os.vms 23 11000 556 83% 791 1624.7 5% 0.20 2.6% soc.men 24 8200 427 88% 658 1141.3 0% 0.20 2.0% rec.aviation 25 23000 1198 85% 1556 3070.6 16% 0.19 5.7% soc.singles 26 8300 431 85% 590 1106.3 0% 0.19 2.0% rec.arts.tv.soaps 27 7200 378 91% 387 931.8 1% 0.19 1.8% soc.culture.jewish 28 5000 262 84% 215 696.4 0% 0.19 1.2% rec.guns 29 20000 1037 87% 1506 2525.3 3% 0.18 4.9% rec.arts.startrek 30 19000 992 93% 1353 2241.8 6% 0.18 4.7% rec.arts.sf-lovers 31 11000 563 86% 682 1412.4 2% 0.18 2.7% rec.arts.comics 32 5800 304 94% 28 673.8 7% 0.18 1.4% comp.binaries.atari.st 33 4100 213 82% 210 545.6 10% 0.18 1.0% talk.origins 34 2800 148 84% 114 348.1 0% 0.17 0.7% soc.religion.christian 35 15000 763 93% 409 1566.7 9% 0.16 3.6% rec.music.synth 36 5200 273 84% 266 592.0 2% 0.16 1.3% rec.sport.hockey 37 21000 1076 95% 1323 2016.9 6% 0.15 5.1% comp.sys.amiga 38 12000 633 87% 506 1218.3 52% 0.15 3.0% misc.headlines 39 20000 1053 96% 63 1771.7 0% 0.14 5.0% comp.binaries.mac 40 16000 858 86% 926 1568.6 23% 0.14 4.1% rec.autos