Xref: utzoo news.lists:820 news.groups:9896 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 AMOUNT OF CROSSPOSTING (MAY 89) Message-ID: <60@apostrophe.dec.com> Date: 1 Jun 89 23:05:49 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 8200 389 97% 1 1.1 100% 0.00 1.6% comp.bugs.misc 2 5700 269 96% 2 9.1 100% 0.00 1.1% comp.org.decus 3 3400 161 73% 1 3.0 100% 0.00 0.7% comp.theory.self-org-sys 4 850 40 94% 1 1.3 100% 0.00 0.2% comp.sys.ridge 5 720 34 59% 1 1.7 100% 0.00 0.1% comp.protocols.pcnet 6 420 20 71% 1 0.7 100% 0.00 0.1% comp.sys.intel.ipsc310 7 1000 49 92% 4 5.3 75% 0.01 0.2% comp.sys.celerity 8 3700 174 57% 72 166.3 72% 0.04 0.7% alt.postmodern 9 5900 278 88% 49 103.2 70% 0.02 1.1% soc.culture.arabic 10 8000 380 86% 7 13.9 57% 0.00 1.6% rec.misc 11 6200 293 94% 15 26.3 57% 0.01 1.2% comp.lsi 12 5500 258 94% 56 170.3 57% 0.05 1.1% sci.philosophy.tech 13 250 12 1% 9 107.2 56% 0.01 0.0% unix-pc.sources 14 11000 529 95% 56 112.5 55% 0.02 2.2% comp.edu 15 3700 176 79% 97 220.4 53% 0.08 0.7% talk.religion.newage 16 6400 304 97% 2 3.3 50% 0.00 1.2% comp.std.misc 17 6200 294 94% 17 26.6 50% 0.01 1.2% comp.ivideodisc 18 4800 227 78% 2 2.1 50% 0.00 0.9% comp.ai.edu 19 2500 119 71% 2 5.7 50% 0.00 0.5% comp.terminals.bitgraph 20 17000 784 85% 354 1092.4 46% 0.09 3.2% misc.headlines 21 8500 401 95% 133 380.2 46% 0.07 1.6% sci.psychology 22 18000 855 97% 23 200.4 45% 0.02 3.5% news.lists 23 3000 144 60% 17 119.9 44% 0.04 0.6% alt.prose 24 4600 215 73% 15 15.6 43% 0.00 0.9% alt.config 25 15000 715 81% 1488 3627.3 42% 0.31 2.9% talk.politics.misc 26 2800 131 84% 5 12.5 40% 0.01 0.5% rec.arts.int-fiction 27 24000 1151 97% 313 364.0 39% 0.02 4.7% comp.sources.wanted 28 13000 625 95% 45 62.5 38% 0.01 2.6% comp.periphs 29 13000 593 97% 13 36.3 38% 0.00 2.4% comp.bugs.4bsd 30 9800 461 87% 25 90.9 38% 0.01 1.9% comp.editors 31 4500 212 84% 8 13.3 38% 0.00 0.9% rec.arts.misc 32 14000 654 97% 295 506.1 37% 0.06 2.7% comp.unix.xenix 33 210 10 1% 129 228.8 37% 0.03 0.0% unix-pc.general 34 13000 612 70% 280 361.1 34% 0.03 2.5% alt.rock-n-roll 35 12000 574 95% 182 319.1 34% 0.04 2.4% comp.sys.att 36 15000 703 94% 3 16.0 33% 0.00 2.9% sci.research 37 8300 393 94% 193 408.7 33% 0.07 1.6% sci.lang 38 3700 175 76% 9 70.3 33% 0.02 0.7% comp.lang.lisp.x 39 4600 217 78% 20 51.9 32% 0.01 0.9% talk.politics.soviet 40 8900 419 44% 77 105.9 31% 0.01 1.7% alt.msdos.programmer