Xref: utzoo news.lists:813 news.groups:9879 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 TRAFFIC VOLUME (MAY 89) Message-ID: <49@apostrophe.dec.com> Date: 1 Jun 89 12:52:44 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 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 12000 571 89% 1637 3749.2 3% 0.45 2.4% soc.culture.china 2 28000 1327 84% 1730 3165.4 5% 0.15 5.6% soc.singles 3 18000 866 93% 1800 3107.6 10% 0.26 3.7% rec.music.misc 4 8000 381 82% 1197 2981.8 4% 0.49 1.6% talk.religion.misc 5 7700 365 88% 199 2948.4 0% 0.54 1.5% comp.mail.maps 6 21000 980 90% 1285 2620.0 6% 0.18 4.1% soc.culture.indian 7 26000 1219 94% 1652 2532.0 5% 0.15 5.2% comp.sys.amiga 8 41000 1933 97% 1625 2477.5 8% 0.09 8.2% comp.sys.mac 9 12000 555 92% 868 2341.2 2% 0.29 2.3% rec.games.frp 10 14000 668 82% 933 2289.5 30% 0.22 2.8% talk.politics.misc 11 51000 2411 64% 1355 2232.3 7% 0.05 10.2% alt.sex 12 16000 762 84% 1106 2136.0 5% 0.18 3.2% soc.motss 13 24000 1147 86% 1303 2103.0 2% 0.12 4.9% rec.arts.startrek 14 23000 1109 47% 940 1964.1 19% 0.06 4.7% alt.fusion 15 50000 2357 95% 1156 1939.0 11% 0.06 10.0% comp.sys.ibm.pc 16 45000 2151 97% 41 1863.9 0% 0.06 9.1% comp.sources.unix 17 14000 668 78% 1606 1847.9 3% 0.16 2.8% talk.bizarre 18 12000 582 84% 1220 1823.4 1% 0.21 2.5% rec.sport.baseball 19 12000 552 96% 862 1809.1 3% 0.23 2.3% comp.os.vms 20 25000 1163 95% 64 1801.3 0% 0.11 4.9% comp.binaries.mac 21 6400 303 79% 668 1792.7 15% 0.36 1.3% talk.politics.mideast 22 3400 161 45% 720 1782.9 22% 0.38 0.7% talk.politics.guns 23 21000 1017 92% 837 1591.8 6% 0.11 4.3% rec.arts.sf-lovers 24 17000 787 94% 32 1586.6 0% 0.14 3.3% comp.sources.x 25 5900 279 87% 835 1583.6 2% 0.37 1.2% rec.motorcycles 26 5200 248 89% 63 1579.4 3% 0.43 1.0% comp.binaries.apple2 27 39000 1874 84% 1294 1551.9 5% 0.05 7.9% rec.humor 28 26000 1240 94% 50 1509.4 0% 0.09 5.2% comp.binaries.ibm.pc 29 9800 466 93% 720 1509.0 8% 0.23 2.0% rec.ham-radio 30 14000 658 93% 355 1495.0 11% 0.16 2.8% rec.music.synth 31 11000 510 86% 706 1438.7 3% 0.18 2.2% rec.arts.comics 32 35000 1653 95% 900 1426.7 8% 0.06 7.0% comp.lang.c 33 21000 990 94% 821 1423.8 6% 0.10 4.2% comp.sys.atari.st 34 31000 1486 94% 722 1416.7 40% 0.07 6.3% sci.physics 35 18000 865 88% 710 1346.1 3% 0.11 3.7% rec.audio 36 20000 948 86% 823 1315.8 24% 0.09 4.0% rec.autos 37 6200 293 93% 25 1299.5 0% 0.31 1.2% comp.sources.amiga 38 10000 483 92% 872 1295.3 2% 0.19 2.0% rec.music.gdead 39 25000 1179 96% 30 1265.8 0% 0.08 5.0% comp.sources.games 40 6500 310 81% 583 1243.0 21% 0.25 1.3% talk.abortion