Xref: utzoo news.lists:1067 news.groups:16036 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!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 TRAFFIC VOLUME (DEC 89) Message-ID: <341@apostrophe.dec.com> Date: 1 Jan 90 16:21:26 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 13000 550 90% 208 4382.7 0% 0.56 2.0% comp.mail.maps 2 22000 913 97% 300 4185.8 1% 0.34 3.4% comp.os.minix 3 22000 901 85% 1189 3077.1 39% 0.22 3.3% talk.politics.misc 4 34000 1399 97% 1764 3012.6 8% 0.16 5.2% comp.sys.amiga 5 27000 1122 90% 1026 2896.0 5% 0.18 4.2% soc.culture.china 6 79000 3240 72% 1346 2751.9 4% 0.05 12.0% alt.sex 7 61000 2483 97% 1672 2701.0 15% 0.08 9.2% comp.sys.mac 8 32000 1319 91% 1483 2543.5 2% 0.13 4.9% rec.arts.startrek 9 10000 426 85% 866 2454.2 4% 0.39 1.6% talk.religion.misc 10 71000 2916 98% 1505 2424.8 17% 0.06 10.8% comp.sys.ibm.pc 11 55000 2276 98% 57 2344.2 0% 0.08 8.4% comp.sources.misc 12 21000 850 91% 1272 2333.3 2% 0.19 3.1% rec.sport.football 13 33000 1357 97% 58 2221.9 0% 0.12 5.0% comp.binaries.mac 14 10000 418 76% 177 2180.9 10% 0.31 1.5% comp.os.os2 15 33000 1351 91% 1189 2115.7 10% 0.11 5.0% rec.autos 16 30000 1213 91% 1158 2086.9 2% 0.12 4.5% soc.culture.indian 17 68000 2810 91% 1279 2082.2 4% 0.05 10.4% rec.humor 18 23000 951 88% 801 1931.9 16% 0.14 3.5% soc.women 19 27000 1114 93% 936 1873.4 3% 0.12 4.1% rec.arts.sf-lovers 20 13000 553 91% 948 1840.3 3% 0.24 2.0% rec.sport.basketball 21 7800 319 85% 566 1800.4 1% 0.36 1.2% talk.abortion 22 34000 1400 87% 940 1791.0 8% 0.09 5.2% soc.singles 23 17000 690 91% 890 1764.0 1% 0.17 2.6% rec.arts.comics 24 32000 1318 97% 1092 1727.7 3% 0.10 4.9% comp.sys.atari.st 25 14000 561 37% 1001 1707.9 1% 0.09 2.1% alt.folklore.computers 26 21000 867 88% 870 1685.7 8% 0.13 3.2% soc.motss 27 22000 892 96% 841 1681.2 3% 0.14 3.3% comp.os.vms 28 25000 1011 91% 1040 1659.1 5% 0.11 3.7% rec.arts.tv 29 37000 1534 93% 993 1644.5 5% 0.08 5.7% rec.arts.movies 30 26000 1061 94% 882 1476.5 13% 0.10 3.9% rec.music.misc 31 17000 703 93% 814 1447.6 1% 0.15 2.6% rec.aviation 32 10000 429 84% 497 1434.8 20% 0.22 1.6% talk.politics.mideast 33 21000 867 91% 624 1430.3 25% 0.12 3.2% misc.headlines 34 18000 753 94% 732 1418.6 6% 0.14 2.8% rec.ham-radio 35 19000 763 95% 41 1389.4 8% 0.13 2.8% comp.binaries.atari.st 36 25000 1023 84% 1106 1380.8 6% 0.09 3.8% talk.bizarre 37 10000 423 91% 813 1375.7 1% 0.23 1.6% rec.motorcycles 38 17000 682 93% 523 1353.0 1% 0.14 2.5% rec.games.frp 39 15000 603 90% 768 1346.2 0% 0.15 2.2% rec.arts.tv.soaps 40 16000 673 96% 553 1312.3 2% 0.15 2.5% rec.music.classical