Xref: utzoo news.lists:811 news.groups:9877 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!decwrl!reid From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups Subject: TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY AMOUNT OF CROSSPOSTING (MAY 89) Message-ID: <48@apostrophe.dec.com> Date: 1 Jun 89 12:52:34 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 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 5600 265 96% 1 1.6 100% 0.00 1.1% comp.std.misc 2 1600 75 49% 1 1.1 100% 0.00 0.3% bionet.software.contrib 3 7500 357 86% 46 79.4 70% 0.01 1.5% rec.misc 4 8100 386 90% 33 61.9 65% 0.01 1.6% soc.culture.misc 5 16000 765 94% 86 190.8 63% 0.02 3.2% sci.research 6 4800 230 81% 5 7.5 60% 0.00 1.0% comp.theory.cell-automata 7 17000 807 97% 40 311.6 58% 0.03 3.4% news.lists 8 11000 536 94% 213 387.1 58% 0.05 2.3% comp.sys.att 9 8200 389 59% 150 315.1 56% 0.04 1.6% alt.activism 10 14000 681 95% 53 77.0 52% 0.01 2.9% comp.periphs 11 11000 531 94% 69 123.7 52% 0.02 2.2% comp.edu 12 7700 366 90% 22 34.8 52% 0.01 1.5% sci.logic 13 12000 586 95% 8 13.7 50% 0.00 2.5% comp.windows.misc 14 6400 302 94% 30 51.1 46% 0.01 1.3% comp.lsi 15 11000 499 96% 85 172.1 44% 0.02 2.1% sci.bio 16 7500 357 92% 132 223.5 41% 0.04 1.5% rec.music.folk 17 31000 1486 94% 722 1416.7 40% 0.07 6.3% sci.physics 18 10000 480 97% 24 35.6 39% 0.01 2.0% comp.protocols.misc 19 15000 729 97% 75 151.1 37% 0.02 3.1% news.sysadmin 20 11000 522 69% 405 588.1 37% 0.06 2.2% alt.rock-n-roll 21 340 16 1% 174 335.7 37% 0.02 0.1% unix-pc.general 22 270 13 1% 11 289.1 36% 0.03 0.1% unix-pc.sources 23 3000 140 68% 112 429.4 35% 0.16 0.6% soc.culture.turkish 24 16000 750 84% 382 771.6 34% 0.07 3.2% soc.men 25 4700 223 94% 121 268.3 34% 0.09 0.9% comp.sys.tandy 26 2800 131 95% 3 6.2 33% 0.00 0.6% comp.bugs.2bsd 27 31000 1494 95% 198 197.3 31% 0.01 6.3% misc.wanted 28 9700 461 89% 54 98.3 31% 0.01 2.0% soc.culture.japan 29 14000 668 82% 933 2289.5 30% 0.22 2.8% talk.politics.misc 30 29000 1357 98% 229 482.8 29% 0.03 5.7% news.admin 31 8600 410 92% 70 158.2 29% 0.03 1.7% rec.games.programmer 32 24000 1146 86% 532 962.3 28% 0.06 4.8% misc.consumers 33 13000 620 97% 81 128.0 28% 0.02 2.6% comp.mail.misc 34 11000 501 97% 31 46.7 28% 0.01 2.1% news.software.b 35 11000 500 97% 31 36.3 28% 0.01 2.1% news.config 36 4600 216 92% 65 111.3 28% 0.04 0.9% sci.lang.japan 37 4200 197 92% 50 212.2 28% 0.07 0.8% rec.games.pbm 38 40000 1891 86% 550 622.7 27% 0.02 8.0% misc.forsale 39 16000 739 83% 58 106.4 27% 0.01 3.1% rec.humor.d 40 15000 725 97% 127 281.9 27% 0.03 3.1% comp.std.c