Xref: utzoo news.lists:821 news.groups:9897 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 PER-READER COST (MAY 89) Message-ID: <59@apostrophe.dec.com> Date: 1 Jun 89 23:05:41 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 PER-READER COST 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 7900 373 88% 131 2929.4 0% 0.52 1.5% comp.mail.maps 2 7400 351 80% 1152 3023.6 2% 0.52 1.4% talk.religion.misc 3 4600 215 90% 66 1498.6 0% 0.47 0.9% comp.binaries.apple2 4 16000 740 89% 2319 4777.8 2% 0.43 3.0% soc.culture.china 5 3500 167 57% 660 1568.0 17% 0.41 0.7% talk.politics.guns 6 3900 186 67% 512 1353.2 0% 0.37 0.8% alt.sca 7 15000 715 81% 1488 3627.3 42% 0.31 2.9% talk.politics.misc 8 4700 220 94% 282 875.7 2% 0.28 0.9% comp.sys.sgi 9 2300 108 77% 147 519.0 20% 0.28 0.4% soc.culture.turkish 10 9900 469 93% 39 1780.8 0% 0.27 1.9% comp.binaries.amiga 11 5200 245 83% 439 970.6 0% 0.25 1.0% rec.sport.hockey 12 5000 236 94% 80 824.1 20% 0.25 1.0% sci.med.aids 13 4700 221 80% 324 904.3 2% 0.25 0.9% talk.origins 14 12000 564 93% 808 1973.0 2% 0.24 2.3% rec.games.frp 15 11000 508 86% 952 1906.1 2% 0.24 2.1% rec.arts.comics 16 6900 327 86% 652 1182.9 1% 0.24 1.3% rec.motorcycles 17 3000 144 84% 257 540.2 0% 0.24 0.6% misc.handicap 18 5500 260 78% 455 1019.1 6% 0.23 1.1% talk.politics.mideast 19 12000 570 96% 875 1668.5 2% 0.21 2.3% comp.os.vms 20 12000 547 94% 38 1678.4 0% 0.21 2.2% comp.sources.amiga 21 6500 308 80% 527 1076.4 4% 0.21 1.3% talk.abortion 22 13000 608 84% 1212 1892.4 0% 0.20 2.5% rec.sport.baseball 23 12000 544 94% 1023 1576.3 1% 0.20 2.2% comp.sys.apple 24 1600 76 73% 17 278.6 0% 0.20 0.3% rec.games.vectrex 25 5000 235 95% 288 643.0 0% 0.19 1.0% rec.music.gaffa 26 12000 584 97% 229 1367.4 3% 0.18 2.4% comp.os.minix 27 9600 453 84% 752 1305.1 1% 0.18 1.9% rec.sport.basketball 28 4800 228 84% 371 649.8 3% 0.18 0.9% rec.arts.poems 29 23000 1108 95% 1505 2511.2 7% 0.17 4.6% comp.sys.amiga 30 9200 436 87% 594 1093.4 1% 0.17 1.8% rec.aviation 31 2800 131 96% 4 315.3 0% 0.17 0.5% comp.org.fidonet 32 25000 1199 85% 1363 2878.9 2% 0.16 4.9% rec.arts.startrek 33 11000 518 92% 860 1206.9 3% 0.16 2.1% rec.music.gdead 34 11000 516 93% 549 1158.0 6% 0.16 2.1% rec.ham-radio 35 7600 358 90% 331 840.7 3% 0.16 1.5% soc.culture.jewish 36 19000 921 90% 856 1947.4 4% 0.15 3.8% soc.culture.indian 37 11000 501 84% 683 1240.2 1% 0.15 2.1% rec.arts.tv.soaps 38 20000 929 83% 1061 2090.3 3% 0.14 3.8% soc.motss 39 19000 902 93% 1062 1790.3 15% 0.14 3.7% rec.music.misc 40 10000 484 93% 31 969.6 10% 0.14 2.0% comp.binaries.atari.st