Xref: utzoo news.lists:749 news.groups:8743 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 TRAFFIC VOLUME (MAR 89) Message-ID: <1312@bacchus.dec.com> Date: 5 Apr 89 09:20:02 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 TRAFFIC VOLUME 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 26000 1356 85% 1963 4226.6 17% 0.23 6.1% soc.singles 2 25000 1273 94% 106 3565.1 0% 0.22 5.7% comp.binaries.ibm.pc 3 43000 2253 98% 83 3452.5 4% 0.13 10.1% comp.sources.unix 4 14000 724 83% 1211 3405.7 31% 0.33 3.2% talk.politics.misc 5 9800 509 95% 67 3174.2 0% 0.50 2.3% comp.sources.amiga 6 10000 539 89% 1408 3089.7 7% 0.45 2.4% soc.culture.china 7 8400 434 94% 57 2738.3 0% 0.50 1.9% comp.binaries.amiga 8 23000 1197 82% 110 2705.1 10% 0.16 5.4% alt.sources 9 6700 347 90% 151 2698.6 0% 0.60 1.6% comp.mail.maps 10 8900 465 83% 1096 2530.7 6% 0.39 2.1% talk.religion.misc 11 9200 480 93% 879 2351.8 3% 0.39 2.1% rec.games.frp 12 21000 1096 95% 1348 2349.8 5% 0.18 4.9% comp.sys.amiga 13 22000 1123 96% 75 2349.2 0% 0.17 5.0% comp.binaries.mac 14 36000 1885 97% 1573 2329.1 9% 0.10 8.4% comp.sys.mac 15 5700 295 80% 896 2262.8 20% 0.52 1.3% talk.politics.mideast 16 22000 1159 88% 1155 2180.5 4% 0.14 5.2% rec.arts.startrek 17 16000 827 94% 380 2175.2 10% 0.21 3.7% rec.music.synth 18 11000 590 85% 1175 2164.2 6% 0.28 2.6% soc.motss 19 17000 898 94% 1171 2144.0 15% 0.19 4.0% rec.music.misc 20 12000 615 98% 318 2049.8 2% 0.27 2.8% comp.os.minix 21 40000 2100 63% 1136 1967.6 29% 0.05 9.4% alt.sex 22 7800 405 86% 1166 1963.9 0% 0.36 1.8% rec.sport.basketball 23 12000 604 95% 1128 1879.7 2% 0.24 2.7% comp.sys.apple 24 9400 490 86% 1160 1863.3 0% 0.28 2.2% rec.sport.baseball 25 12000 602 79% 1541 1840.0 1% 0.20 2.7% talk.bizarre 26 18000 947 93% 999 1823.0 10% 0.16 4.2% rec.arts.sf-lovers 27 17000 875 91% 931 1770.2 15% 0.16 3.9% soc.culture.indian 28 41000 2137 96% 1144 1711.8 12% 0.07 9.6% comp.sys.ibm.pc 29 27000 1377 98% 820 1592.1 30% 0.09 6.2% news.groups 30 10000 531 88% 802 1548.8 1% 0.22 2.4% rec.arts.comics 31 9800 510 94% 687 1446.3 8% 0.23 2.3% rec.ham-radio 32 11000 573 97% 771 1431.3 3% 0.21 2.6% comp.os.vms 33 16000 843 88% 859 1388.8 15% 0.12 3.8% rec.autos 34 28000 1429 92% 968 1372.2 6% 0.07 6.4% rec.arts.movies 35 7700 400 91% 536 1370.3 5% 0.27 1.8% soc.culture.jewish 36 7400 384 94% 48 1365.3 0% 0.28 1.7% comp.binaries.atari.st 37 18000 929 95% 759 1275.2 5% 0.11 4.2% comp.sys.atari.st 38 15000 767 92% 35 1275.2 6% 0.13 3.4% comp.sources.x 39 17000 895 90% 681 1259.4 8% 0.11 4.0% rec.audio 40 8100 419 89% 702 1249.1 12% 0.23 1.9% rec.aviation