Xref: utzoo news.lists:748 news.groups:8742 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 (MAR 89) Message-ID: <1310@bacchus.dec.com> Date: 5 Apr 89 09:19:55 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 6700 347 90% 151 2698.6 0% 0.60 1.6% comp.mail.maps 2 5700 295 80% 896 2262.8 20% 0.52 1.3% talk.politics.mideast 3 9800 509 95% 67 3174.2 0% 0.50 2.3% comp.sources.amiga 4 8400 434 94% 57 2738.3 0% 0.50 1.9% comp.binaries.amiga 5 10000 539 89% 1408 3089.7 7% 0.45 2.4% soc.culture.china 6 9200 480 93% 879 2351.8 3% 0.39 2.1% rec.games.frp 7 8900 465 83% 1096 2530.7 6% 0.39 2.1% talk.religion.misc 8 7800 405 86% 1166 1963.9 0% 0.36 1.8% rec.sport.basketball 9 14000 724 83% 1211 3405.7 31% 0.33 3.2% talk.politics.misc 10 5300 277 88% 605 1176.5 2% 0.32 1.2% rec.motorcycles 11 11000 590 85% 1175 2164.2 6% 0.28 2.6% soc.motss 12 9400 490 86% 1160 1863.3 0% 0.28 2.2% rec.sport.baseball 13 7400 384 94% 48 1365.3 0% 0.28 1.7% comp.binaries.atari.st 14 12000 615 98% 318 2049.8 2% 0.27 2.8% comp.os.minix 15 7700 400 91% 536 1370.3 5% 0.27 1.8% soc.culture.jewish 16 4200 217 89% 58 780.6 2% 0.27 1.0% comp.binaries.apple2 17 3300 173 65% 307 829.0 0% 0.27 0.8% alt.sca 18 2500 128 86% 154 467.2 0% 0.26 0.6% misc.handicap 19 12000 604 95% 1128 1879.7 2% 0.24 2.7% comp.sys.apple 20 26000 1356 85% 1963 4226.6 17% 0.23 6.1% soc.singles 21 9800 510 94% 687 1446.3 8% 0.23 2.3% rec.ham-radio 22 8100 419 89% 702 1249.1 12% 0.23 1.9% rec.aviation 23 460 24 62% 1 103.1 0% 0.23 0.1% rec.mag.fsfnet 24 25000 1273 94% 106 3565.1 0% 0.22 5.7% comp.binaries.ibm.pc 25 10000 531 88% 802 1548.8 1% 0.22 2.4% rec.arts.comics 26 4100 213 83% 262 667.6 13% 0.22 1.0% talk.origins 27 16000 827 94% 380 2175.2 10% 0.21 3.7% rec.music.synth 28 11000 573 97% 771 1431.3 3% 0.21 2.6% comp.os.vms 29 5200 272 85% 288 791.5 0% 0.21 1.2% rec.guns 30 12000 602 79% 1541 1840.0 1% 0.20 2.7% talk.bizarre 31 17000 898 94% 1171 2144.0 15% 0.19 4.0% rec.music.misc 32 5700 297 83% 381 785.4 1% 0.19 1.3% talk.abortion 33 21000 1096 95% 1348 2349.8 5% 0.18 4.9% comp.sys.amiga 34 8400 439 93% 616 977.2 5% 0.18 2.0% rec.music.gdead 35 8400 438 86% 612 1039.3 0% 0.18 2.0% rec.arts.tv.soaps 36 4400 231 85% 289 563.5 6% 0.18 1.0% rec.arts.anime 37 3900 204 83% 165 515.6 18% 0.18 0.9% talk.politics.theory 38 22000 1123 96% 75 2349.2 0% 0.17 5.0% comp.binaries.mac 39 9400 488 95% 504 1044.9 9% 0.17 2.2% rec.music.classical 40 23000 1197 82% 110 2705.1 10% 0.16 5.4% alt.sources