Xref: utzoo news.lists:1068 news.groups:16037 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!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 PER-READER COST (DEC 89) Message-ID: <339@apostrophe.dec.com> Date: 1 Jan 90 16:21:15 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 13000 550 90% 208 4382.7 0% 0.56 2.0% comp.mail.maps 2 10000 426 85% 866 2454.2 4% 0.39 1.6% talk.religion.misc 3 7800 319 85% 566 1800.4 1% 0.36 1.2% talk.abortion 4 22000 913 97% 300 4185.8 1% 0.34 3.4% comp.os.minix 5 10000 418 76% 177 2180.9 10% 0.31 1.5% comp.os.os2 6 5700 232 75% 503 1224.5 16% 0.30 0.9% talk.politics.guns 7 3900 161 51% 373 1215.8 0% 0.30 0.6% alt.callahans 8 2600 108 61% 540 642.1 0% 0.28 0.4% alt.cosuard 9 13000 553 91% 948 1840.3 3% 0.24 2.0% rec.sport.basketball 10 5400 220 91% 310 760.0 0% 0.24 0.8% misc.handicap 11 10000 423 91% 813 1375.7 1% 0.23 1.6% rec.motorcycles 12 9800 403 97% 228 1227.0 4% 0.23 1.5% comp.lang.forth 13 22000 901 85% 1189 3077.1 39% 0.22 3.3% talk.politics.misc 14 10000 429 84% 497 1434.8 20% 0.22 1.6% talk.politics.mideast 15 6600 271 75% 503 1008.6 5% 0.21 1.0% soc.culture.taiwan 16 6100 249 73% 354 956.9 1% 0.21 0.9% alt.recovery 17 6800 279 93% 212 785.7 0% 0.20 1.0% rec.games.empire 18 5800 236 85% 201 752.3 2% 0.20 0.9% talk.politics.theory 19 21000 850 91% 1272 2333.3 2% 0.19 3.1% rec.sport.football 20 3900 159 59% 305 679.8 1% 0.19 0.6% rec.org.sca 21 27000 1122 90% 1026 2896.0 5% 0.18 4.2% soc.culture.china 22 8000 329 85% 75 941.1 1% 0.18 1.2% gnu.g++.bug 23 17000 690 91% 890 1764.0 1% 0.17 2.6% rec.arts.comics 24 34000 1399 97% 1764 3012.6 8% 0.16 5.2% comp.sys.amiga 25 17000 703 93% 814 1447.6 1% 0.15 2.6% rec.aviation 26 16000 673 96% 553 1312.3 2% 0.15 2.5% rec.music.classical 27 15000 603 90% 768 1346.2 0% 0.15 2.2% rec.arts.tv.soaps 28 8600 352 95% 281 725.1 0% 0.15 1.3% rec.music.gaffa 29 5800 240 88% 146 534.3 0% 0.15 0.9% soc.religion.christian 30 23000 951 88% 801 1931.9 16% 0.14 3.5% soc.women 31 22000 892 96% 841 1681.2 3% 0.14 3.3% comp.os.vms 32 18000 753 94% 732 1418.6 6% 0.14 2.8% rec.ham-radio 33 17000 682 93% 523 1353.0 1% 0.14 2.5% rec.games.frp 34 8600 354 77% 226 813.7 1% 0.14 1.3% soc.culture.hongkong 35 7200 296 93% 93 591.9 0% 0.14 1.1% rec.games.go 36 32000 1319 91% 1483 2543.5 2% 0.13 4.9% rec.arts.startrek 37 21000 867 88% 870 1685.7 8% 0.13 3.2% soc.motss 38 19000 763 95% 41 1389.4 8% 0.13 2.8% comp.binaries.atari.st 39 17000 716 97% 827 1199.0 1% 0.13 2.6% comp.sys.apple 40 33000 1357 97% 58 2221.9 0% 0.12 5.0% comp.binaries.mac