Xref: utzoo news.lists:819 news.groups:9895 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!purdue!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: <61@apostrophe.dec.com> Date: 1 Jun 89 23:05:54 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 16000 740 89% 2319 4777.8 2% 0.43 3.0% soc.culture.china 2 15000 715 81% 1488 3627.3 42% 0.31 2.9% talk.politics.misc 3 7400 351 80% 1152 3023.6 2% 0.52 1.4% talk.religion.misc 4 7900 373 88% 131 2929.4 0% 0.52 1.5% comp.mail.maps 5 25000 1199 85% 1363 2878.9 2% 0.16 4.9% rec.arts.startrek 6 28000 1301 83% 1536 2753.0 2% 0.13 5.3% soc.singles 7 23000 1108 95% 1505 2511.2 7% 0.17 4.6% comp.sys.amiga 8 56000 2629 65% 1183 2455.9 13% 0.05 10.8% alt.sex 9 37000 1743 97% 1545 2277.2 10% 0.10 7.2% comp.sys.mac 10 44000 2062 95% 1218 2156.2 17% 0.07 8.5% comp.sys.ibm.pc 11 25000 1182 95% 71 2122.5 0% 0.13 4.9% comp.binaries.mac 12 20000 929 83% 1061 2090.3 3% 0.14 3.8% soc.motss 13 42000 2000 83% 1422 2077.6 2% 0.07 8.2% rec.humor 14 12000 564 93% 808 1973.0 2% 0.24 2.3% rec.games.frp 15 19000 921 90% 856 1947.4 4% 0.15 3.8% soc.culture.indian 16 11000 508 86% 952 1906.1 2% 0.24 2.1% rec.arts.comics 17 13000 608 84% 1212 1892.4 0% 0.20 2.5% rec.sport.baseball 18 22000 1059 93% 1102 1871.1 6% 0.13 4.4% rec.arts.sf-lovers 19 19000 902 93% 1062 1790.3 15% 0.14 3.7% rec.music.misc 20 9900 469 93% 39 1780.8 0% 0.27 1.9% comp.binaries.amiga 21 25000 1167 94% 49 1712.0 0% 0.10 4.8% comp.binaries.ibm.pc 22 12000 547 94% 38 1678.4 0% 0.21 2.2% comp.sources.amiga 23 12000 570 96% 875 1668.5 2% 0.21 2.3% comp.os.vms 24 33000 1544 93% 1055 1600.1 3% 0.07 6.3% rec.arts.movies 25 12000 544 94% 1023 1576.3 1% 0.20 2.2% comp.sys.apple 26 3500 167 57% 660 1568.0 17% 0.41 0.7% talk.politics.guns 27 17000 814 76% 1378 1551.4 3% 0.11 3.3% talk.bizarre 28 4600 215 90% 66 1498.6 0% 0.47 0.9% comp.binaries.apple2 29 12000 584 97% 229 1367.4 3% 0.18 2.4% comp.os.minix 30 3900 186 67% 512 1353.2 0% 0.37 0.8% alt.sca 31 22000 1047 85% 723 1322.4 15% 0.08 4.3% rec.autos 32 18000 850 83% 622 1307.3 24% 0.10 3.5% soc.women 33 9600 453 84% 752 1305.1 1% 0.18 1.9% rec.sport.basketball 34 22000 1023 94% 721 1294.8 4% 0.09 4.2% comp.sys.atari.st 35 20000 932 83% 560 1266.4 29% 0.08 3.8% soc.men 36 11000 501 84% 683 1240.2 1% 0.15 2.1% rec.arts.tv.soaps 37 11000 518 92% 860 1206.9 3% 0.16 2.1% rec.music.gdead 38 18000 859 86% 741 1205.4 8% 0.09 3.5% rec.food.cooking 39 18000 829 95% 692 1192.6 12% 0.10 3.4% comp.sys.mac.programmer 40 30000 1439 95% 722 1190.8 7% 0.06 5.9% comp.lang.c