Xref: utzoo news.lists:747 news.groups:8741 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 (MAR 89) Message-ID: <1311@bacchus.dec.com> Date: 5 Apr 89 09:19:58 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 11000 561 94% 51 98.8 81% 0.01 2.5% sci.research 2 7900 413 97% 13 24.0 77% 0.00 1.8% comp.text.desktop 3 32000 1688 98% 4 13.1 75% 0.00 7.6% news.announce.important 4 4000 206 97% 40 73.5 74% 0.03 0.9% comp.os.os9 5 9100 474 88% 6 11.4 67% 0.00 2.1% rec.misc 6 15000 771 84% 128 246.1 59% 0.02 3.5% rec.humor.d 7 4100 211 57% 122 321.8 59% 0.07 0.9% alt.activism 8 9200 480 96% 35 62.8 58% 0.01 2.1% sci.bio 9 23000 1206 98% 75 132.1 57% 0.01 5.4% news.misc 10 5600 293 95% 9 39.4 56% 0.01 1.3% comp.lsi 11 7900 413 95% 15 18.4 50% 0.00 1.8% comp.sys.intel 12 3900 201 97% 2 2.8 50% 0.00 0.9% comp.bugs.misc 13 2300 121 95% 2 67.6 50% 0.05 0.5% rec.mag.otherrealms 14 1400 74 94% 2 2.6 50% 0.00 0.3% comp.os.eunice 15 620 32 94% 4 13.2 50% 0.03 0.1% comp.sys.ridge 16 500 26 48% 2 4.2 50% 0.01 0.1% bionet.molbio.proteins 17 5800 302 79% 43 101.3 49% 0.02 1.4% rec.arts.misc 18 190 10 1% 189 338.0 48% 0.03 0.0% unix-pc.general 19 170 9 1% 18 264.3 47% 0.03 0.0% unix-pc.sources 20 9400 488 94% 143 230.6 44% 0.04 2.2% comp.unix.microport 21 7700 402 96% 19 202.5 44% 0.04 1.8% comp.protocols.iso 22 5200 269 91% 68 137.9 44% 0.04 1.2% soc.culture.african 23 14000 729 95% 57 106.6 43% 0.01 3.3% comp.periphs 24 3600 185 96% 21 40.4 40% 0.02 0.8% comp.sys.pyramid 25 6800 355 89% 85 207.1 38% 0.04 1.6% soc.culture.japan 26 25000 1308 95% 268 548.4 37% 0.03 5.9% comp.misc 27 3800 196 83% 54 115.5 37% 0.04 0.9% talk.philosophy.misc 28 17000 870 98% 26 195.9 36% 0.02 3.9% news.lists 29 11000 594 97% 121 190.9 35% 0.03 2.7% comp.std.c 30 17000 885 95% 510 1022.0 33% 0.09 4.0% sci.physics 31 14000 730 98% 48 91.1 33% 0.01 3.3% news.sysadmin 32 3300 170 95% 19 40.9 33% 0.02 0.8% comp.sys.m6809 33 27000 1413 96% 189 213.5 32% 0.01 6.3% misc.wanted 34 14000 724 83% 1211 3405.7 31% 0.33 3.2% talk.politics.misc 35 9300 485 95% 54 62.3 31% 0.01 2.2% comp.terminals 36 27000 1377 98% 820 1592.1 30% 0.09 6.2% news.groups 37 8500 440 89% 60 73.6 30% 0.01 2.0% comp.windows.ms 38 6300 327 90% 10 15.8 30% 0.00 1.5% sci.logic 39 5500 286 87% 98 209.5 30% 0.05 1.3% soc.culture.arabic 40 3600 188 78% 21 54.0 30% 0.02 0.8% comp.theory.cell-automata