Xref: utzoo news.lists:812 news.groups:9878 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 POPULARITY (MAY 89) Message-ID: <46@apostrophe.dec.com> Date: 1 Jun 89 12:52:19 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 POPULARITY 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 65000 3079 93% 55 136.9 0% 0.00 13.0% rec.humor.funny 2 58000 2763 97% 39 199.2 0% 0.01 11.7% news.announce.conferences 3 57000 2722 98% 0 0.0 0% 0.00 11.5% news.announce.important 4 51000 2411 64% 1355 2232.3 7% 0.05 10.2% alt.sex 5 50000 2357 95% 1156 1939.0 11% 0.06 10.0% comp.sys.ibm.pc 6 49000 2336 93% 166 327.6 8% 0.01 9.9% misc.jobs.offered 7 45000 2151 97% 41 1863.9 0% 0.06 9.1% comp.sources.unix 8 43000 2044 98% 6 73.8 0% 0.00 8.6% news.announce.newusers 9 41000 1933 97% 1625 2477.5 8% 0.09 8.2% comp.sys.mac 10 40000 1891 86% 550 622.7 27% 0.02 8.0% misc.forsale 11 39000 1874 84% 1294 1551.9 5% 0.05 7.9% rec.humor 12 35000 1653 95% 900 1426.7 8% 0.06 7.0% comp.lang.c 13 33000 1550 92% 715 1124.4 6% 0.05 6.6% rec.arts.movies 14 32000 1502 98% 482 717.6 12% 0.04 6.4% comp.unix.wizards 15 31000 1494 95% 198 197.3 31% 0.01 6.3% misc.wanted 16 31000 1486 94% 722 1416.7 40% 0.07 6.3% sci.physics 17 30000 1417 97% 16 481.7 0% 0.03 6.0% comp.sources.misc 18 29000 1391 98% 583 1122.4 22% 0.06 5.9% news.groups 19 29000 1383 95% 138 293.5 16% 0.02 5.9% comp.misc 20 29000 1366 96% 563 825.2 18% 0.04 5.8% comp.unix.questions 21 29000 1357 98% 229 482.8 29% 0.03 5.7% news.admin 22 29000 1357 97% 64 126.0 12% 0.01 5.7% comp.sources.d 23 29000 1357 95% 347 853.5 14% 0.05 5.7% comp.graphics 24 28000 1327 84% 1730 3165.4 5% 0.15 5.6% soc.singles 25 27000 1269 84% 21 258.9 10% 0.01 5.4% alt.sources 26 26000 1242 96% 408 1029.3 5% 0.06 5.3% comp.arch 27 26000 1240 94% 50 1509.4 0% 0.09 5.2% comp.binaries.ibm.pc 28 26000 1238 93% 176 351.3 5% 0.02 5.2% misc.jobs.misc 29 26000 1219 94% 1652 2532.0 5% 0.15 5.2% comp.sys.amiga 30 25000 1179 96% 30 1265.8 0% 0.08 5.0% comp.sources.games 31 25000 1163 95% 64 1801.3 0% 0.11 4.9% comp.binaries.mac 32 24000 1147 86% 1303 2103.0 2% 0.12 4.9% rec.arts.startrek 33 24000 1146 86% 532 962.3 28% 0.06 4.8% misc.consumers 34 23000 1109 47% 940 1964.1 19% 0.06 4.7% alt.fusion 35 23000 1091 97% 257 394.1 21% 0.03 4.6% comp.sources.wanted 36 23000 1082 97% 124 279.0 25% 0.02 4.6% news.misc 37 23000 1068 95% 240 438.9 10% 0.03 4.5% sci.electronics 38 22000 1024 97% 19 373.7 0% 0.03 4.3% comp.risks 39 22000 1022 89% 23 104.8 5% 0.01 4.3% rec.arts.movies.reviews 40 21000 1017 92% 837 1591.8 6% 0.11 4.3% rec.arts.sf-lovers