Xref: utzoo news.lists:818 news.groups:9894 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!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: <58@apostrophe.dec.com> Date: 1 Jun 89 23:05:35 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 67000 3156 94% 67 116.3 5% 0.00 13.0% rec.humor.funny 2 59000 2767 97% 19 122.4 0% 0.00 11.4% news.announce.conferences 3 56000 2629 65% 1183 2455.9 13% 0.05 10.8% alt.sex 4 49000 2323 93% 204 414.6 8% 0.01 9.5% misc.jobs.offered 5 46000 2162 85% 505 565.7 29% 0.02 8.9% misc.forsale 6 45000 2130 97% 7 81.2 14% 0.00 8.8% news.announce.newusers 7 44000 2062 95% 1218 2156.2 17% 0.07 8.5% comp.sys.ibm.pc 8 42000 2000 83% 1422 2077.6 2% 0.07 8.2% rec.humor 9 37000 1743 97% 1545 2277.2 10% 0.10 7.2% comp.sys.mac 10 35000 1638 95% 398 740.1 13% 0.03 6.7% comp.graphics 11 35000 1633 98% 22 861.5 0% 0.04 6.7% comp.sources.misc 12 33000 1544 93% 1055 1600.1 3% 0.07 6.3% rec.arts.movies 13 32000 1514 98% 567 959.0 4% 0.05 6.2% comp.unix.wizards 14 30000 1439 95% 722 1190.8 7% 0.06 5.9% comp.lang.c 15 30000 1407 95% 200 179.4 29% 0.01 5.8% misc.wanted 16 30000 1406 96% 653 993.4 15% 0.05 5.8% comp.unix.questions 17 29000 1376 96% 557 1088.8 14% 0.06 5.7% sci.physics 18 29000 1366 93% 183 350.0 6% 0.02 5.6% misc.jobs.misc 19 28000 1329 97% 448 897.4 21% 0.05 5.5% news.groups 20 28000 1320 98% 96 275.6 11% 0.02 5.4% comp.sources.d 21 28000 1301 83% 1536 2753.0 2% 0.13 5.3% soc.singles 22 27000 1257 95% 185 461.4 28% 0.03 5.2% comp.misc 23 26000 1232 85% 52 174.9 2% 0.01 5.1% alt.sources 24 26000 1229 96% 5 176.3 0% 0.01 5.0% comp.sources.games 25 26000 1206 97% 499 1159.7 3% 0.07 5.0% comp.arch 26 25000 1199 85% 1363 2878.9 2% 0.16 4.9% rec.arts.startrek 27 25000 1182 95% 71 2122.5 0% 0.13 4.9% comp.binaries.mac 28 25000 1167 94% 49 1712.0 0% 0.10 4.8% comp.binaries.ibm.pc 29 25000 1161 98% 17 725.6 6% 0.05 4.8% comp.sources.unix 30 24000 1151 97% 313 364.0 39% 0.02 4.7% comp.sources.wanted 31 24000 1150 97% 145 326.2 18% 0.02 4.7% news.admin 32 24000 1143 63% 465 1080.5 17% 0.05 4.7% alt.fusion 33 24000 1137 97% 90 139.6 19% 0.01 4.7% news.misc 34 23000 1108 95% 1505 2511.2 7% 0.17 4.6% comp.sys.amiga 35 23000 1098 97% 684 1058.1 5% 0.07 4.5% comp.windows.x 36 23000 1079 85% 341 579.5 10% 0.03 4.4% misc.consumers 37 22000 1059 93% 1102 1871.1 6% 0.13 4.4% rec.arts.sf-lovers 38 22000 1057 94% 280 430.0 13% 0.03 4.3% sci.electronics 39 22000 1048 93% 216 1124.6 1% 0.08 4.3% misc.jobs.resumes 40 22000 1047 85% 723 1322.4 15% 0.08 4.3% rec.autos