Xref: utzoo news.lists:782 news.groups:9323 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ukma!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!purdue!decwrl!reid From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups Subject: TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PER-READER COST (APR 89) Message-ID: <35@apostrophe.dec.com> Date: 1 May 89 15:44:23 GMT Sender: reid@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 7700 365 88% 199 2948.4 0% 0.54 1.5% comp.mail.maps 2 8000 381 82% 1197 2981.8 4% 0.49 1.6% talk.religion.misc 3 12000 571 89% 1637 3749.2 3% 0.45 2.4% soc.culture.china 4 5200 248 89% 63 1579.4 3% 0.43 1.0% comp.binaries.apple2 5 3400 161 45% 720 1782.9 22% 0.38 0.7% talk.politics.guns 6 5900 279 87% 835 1583.6 2% 0.37 1.2% rec.motorcycles 7 6400 303 79% 668 1792.7 15% 0.36 1.3% talk.politics.mideast 8 6200 293 93% 25 1299.5 0% 0.31 1.2% comp.sources.amiga 9 5200 245 92% 20 1098.6 0% 0.31 1.0% comp.binaries.amiga 10 5600 267 84% 678 1232.4 0% 0.30 1.1% rec.sport.hockey 11 12000 555 92% 868 2341.2 2% 0.29 2.3% rec.games.frp 12 2900 139 47% 118 1044.3 0% 0.28 0.6% comp.soft-sys.andrew 13 3500 165 66% 386 895.6 0% 0.27 0.7% alt.sca 14 18000 866 93% 1800 3107.6 10% 0.26 3.7% rec.music.misc 15 2800 133 95% 5 473.4 0% 0.26 0.6% comp.org.fidonet 16 6500 310 81% 583 1243.0 21% 0.25 1.3% talk.abortion 17 12000 552 96% 862 1809.1 3% 0.23 2.3% comp.os.vms 18 9800 466 93% 720 1509.0 8% 0.23 2.0% rec.ham-radio 19 14000 668 82% 933 2289.5 30% 0.22 2.8% talk.politics.misc 20 12000 582 84% 1220 1823.4 1% 0.21 2.5% rec.sport.baseball 21 4400 207 94% 334 574.0 0% 0.20 0.9% rec.music.gaffa 22 10000 483 92% 872 1295.3 2% 0.19 2.0% rec.music.gdead 23 21000 980 90% 1285 2620.0 6% 0.18 4.1% soc.culture.indian 24 16000 762 84% 1106 2136.0 5% 0.18 3.2% soc.motss 25 11000 510 86% 706 1438.7 3% 0.18 2.2% rec.arts.comics 26 5000 236 85% 376 657.1 1% 0.18 1.0% rec.arts.poems 27 9400 447 84% 628 1172.5 0% 0.17 1.9% rec.arts.tv.soaps 28 7600 362 91% 290 891.9 1% 0.17 1.5% soc.culture.jewish 29 4600 217 83% 383 591.5 3% 0.17 0.9% rec.arts.anime 30 4400 208 81% 248 585.6 8% 0.17 0.9% talk.origins 31 14000 668 78% 1606 1847.9 3% 0.16 2.8% talk.bizarre 32 14000 658 93% 355 1495.0 11% 0.16 2.8% rec.music.synth 33 9600 456 84% 665 1156.4 0% 0.16 1.9% rec.sport.basketball 34 8900 422 87% 600 1037.8 2% 0.16 1.8% rec.aviation 35 4400 210 90% 240 473.9 13% 0.16 0.9% soc.culture.celtic 36 3000 140 68% 112 429.4 35% 0.16 0.6% soc.culture.turkish 37 2700 129 84% 155 320.0 0% 0.16 0.5% misc.handicap 38 28000 1327 84% 1730 3165.4 5% 0.15 5.6% soc.singles 39 26000 1219 94% 1652 2532.0 5% 0.15 5.2% comp.sys.amiga 40 17000 787 94% 32 1586.6 0% 0.14 3.3% comp.sources.x