Xref: utzoo news.lists:1065 news.groups:16034 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!uwm.edu!dogie.macc.wisc.edu!decwrl!reid From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups Subject: TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY (DEC 89) Message-ID: <338@apostrophe.dec.com> Date: 1 Jan 90 16:21:02 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 85000 3494 95% 65 180.4 0% 0.00 12.9% rec.humor.funny 2 82000 3366 95% 182 385.2 9% 0.01 12.5% misc.jobs.offered 3 79000 3240 72% 1346 2751.9 4% 0.05 12.0% alt.sex 4 74000 3044 96% 167 154.1 31% 0.00 11.3% misc.wanted 5 71000 2916 98% 1505 2424.8 17% 0.06 10.8% comp.sys.ibm.pc 6 68000 2810 91% 1279 2082.2 4% 0.05 10.4% rec.humor 7 67000 2766 98% 5 24.8 80% 0.00 10.2% news.announce.conferences 8 65000 2655 97% 258 414.2 11% 0.01 9.8% comp.graphics 9 62000 2536 92% 536 582.5 30% 0.02 9.4% misc.forsale 10 61000 2483 97% 1672 2701.0 15% 0.08 9.2% comp.sys.mac 11 58000 2363 98% 456 690.6 18% 0.02 8.7% comp.unix.questions 12 55000 2276 98% 57 2344.2 0% 0.08 8.4% comp.sources.misc 13 53000 2178 98% 7 85.6 14% 0.00 8.1% news.announce.newusers 14 51000 2073 97% 183 382.5 36% 0.01 7.7% comp.misc 15 50000 2044 98% 333 595.0 8% 0.02 7.6% comp.unix.wizards 16 46000 1897 98% 636 1124.4 25% 0.04 7.0% news.groups 17 43000 1782 98% 566 1044.6 10% 0.04 6.6% comp.lang.c 18 43000 1752 97% 650 1133.4 6% 0.05 6.5% comp.windows.x 19 41000 1689 97% 171 252.4 8% 0.01 6.3% comp.databases 20 40000 1657 84% 79 739.8 11% 0.03 6.1% alt.sources 21 40000 1624 97% 186 433.6 33% 0.02 6.0% comp.ai 22 40000 1622 95% 171 375.9 11% 0.02 6.0% misc.jobs.misc 23 39000 1620 98% 132 336.3 48% 0.02 6.0% news.admin 24 39000 1586 98% 127 298.8 9% 0.01 5.9% news.misc 25 38000 1564 98% 263 269.0 23% 0.01 5.8% comp.sources.wanted 26 38000 1558 93% 41 229.4 44% 0.01 5.8% news.announce.newgroups 27 38000 1556 62% 180 427.7 4% 0.01 5.8% alt.sex.bondage 28 37000 1536 97% 30 121.7 7% 0.01 5.7% comp.newprod 29 37000 1534 93% 993 1644.5 5% 0.08 5.7% rec.arts.movies 30 37000 1530 97% 272 505.8 8% 0.02 5.7% comp.arch 31 37000 1529 97% 9 226.6 0% 0.01 5.7% comp.sources.games 32 36000 1461 98% 219 576.5 8% 0.03 5.4% comp.lang.c++ 33 35000 1452 95% 409 683.2 9% 0.03 5.4% comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d 34 35000 1417 95% 305 471.1 4% 0.02 5.2% sci.electronics 35 34000 1400 87% 940 1791.0 8% 0.09 5.2% soc.singles 36 34000 1399 97% 1764 3012.6 8% 0.16 5.2% comp.sys.amiga 37 34000 1387 96% 242 422.0 13% 0.02 5.1% sci.math 38 34000 1380 98% 61 80.3 19% 0.00 5.1% comp.sources.d 39 34000 1379 99% 1 2.7 0% 0.00 5.1% news.announce.important 40 33000 1363 97% 189 487.3 7% 0.03 5.0% comp.text