Xref: utzoo news.lists:1066 news.groups:16035 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!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 AMOUNT OF CROSSPOSTING (DEC 89) Message-ID: <340@apostrophe.dec.com> Date: 1 Jan 90 16:21:21 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 21000 847 97% 4 5.1 100% 0.00 3.1% comp.windows.misc 2 13000 546 97% 2 4.2 100% 0.00 2.0% comp.bugs.misc 3 9100 373 95% 1 4.6 100% 0.00 1.4% rec.mag.otherrealms 4 8500 349 79% 1 4.3 100% 0.00 1.3% comp.os.v 5 6200 256 97% 3 3.6 100% 0.00 0.9% comp.sys.m6809 6 4900 202 96% 1 2.9 100% 0.00 0.7% comp.sys.proteon 7 3300 135 37% 1 1.5 100% 0.00 0.5% biz.clarinet.sample 8 2600 108 34% 2 7.2 100% 0.00 0.4% biz.clarinet 9 2500 103 45% 2 3.4 100% 0.00 0.4% alt.gambling 10 1000 43 24% 13 24.0 100% 0.01 0.2% soc.rights.alien 11 6100 251 68% 7 44.2 86% 0.01 0.9% alt.cyb-sys 12 67000 2766 98% 5 24.8 80% 0.00 10.2% news.announce.conferences 13 2900 121 23% 4 8.9 75% 0.00 0.4% unix-pc.sources 14 15000 612 91% 3 3.9 67% 0.00 2.3% comp.sw.components 15 11000 456 78% 6 13.4 67% 0.00 1.7% alt.hypertext 16 3500 145 53% 70 156.2 62% 0.04 0.5% sci.aquaria 17 11000 469 97% 10 20.7 60% 0.00 1.7% comp.lsi 18 3500 145 74% 5 8.4 60% 0.00 0.5% rec.games.vectrex 19 560 23 13% 5 9.4 60% 0.00 0.1% u3b.misc 20 17000 688 93% 11 23.3 55% 0.00 2.5% sci.logic 21 33000 1343 97% 91 196.4 54% 0.01 5.0% comp.software-eng 22 23000 962 95% 13 95.8 54% 0.01 3.6% sci.misc 23 13000 518 91% 8 8.0 50% 0.00 1.9% rec.misc 24 12000 473 96% 4 53.9 50% 0.01 1.8% comp.society.futures 25 4400 181 48% 2 2.1 50% 0.00 0.7% alt.exotic-music 26 3500 143 45% 2 3.5 50% 0.00 0.5% biz.comp.services 27 39000 1620 98% 132 336.3 48% 0.02 6.0% news.admin 28 29000 1204 98% 24 256.3 48% 0.02 4.5% news.lists 29 9700 397 89% 66 162.7 48% 0.03 1.5% soc.culture.arabic 30 20000 823 97% 18 42.3 47% 0.00 3.0% comp.bugs.4bsd 31 38000 1558 93% 41 229.4 44% 0.01 5.8% news.announce.newgroups 32 15000 630 97% 7 14.1 43% 0.00 2.3% comp.bugs.sys5 33 15000 602 97% 15 15.8 43% 0.00 2.2% comp.sys.intel 34 17000 699 97% 99 177.8 40% 0.02 2.6% comp.sys.dec 35 11000 447 88% 10 43.5 40% 0.01 1.7% sci.edu 36 22000 901 85% 1189 3077.1 39% 0.22 3.3% talk.politics.misc 37 22000 921 97% 121 382.4 38% 0.03 3.4% comp.sys.att 38 18000 757 70% 45 71.8 38% 0.01 2.8% alt.sources.d 39 1200 51 19% 46 72.8 37% 0.02 0.2% rec.aquaria 40 51000 2073 97% 183 382.5 36% 0.01 7.7% comp.misc