Xref: utzoo news.lists:1124 news.groups:18294 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!jarthur!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!reid From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups Subject: TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY AMOUNT OF CROSSPOSTING (FEB 90) Message-ID: <416@apostrophe.dec.com> Date: 1 Mar 90 15:51:58 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 32000 1122 73% 106 249.7 100% 0.01 3.9% alt.flame 2 6400 227 49% 2 3.3 100% 0.00 0.8% alt.california 3 2600 91 59% 1 0.6 100% 0.00 0.3% bionet.molbio.gene-org 4 2400 83 23% 1 1.3 100% 0.00 0.3% vmsnet.admin 5 2200 76 26% 2 6.7 100% 0.00 0.3% vmsnet.mail 6 4500 159 26% 6 178.1 83% 0.02 0.5% unix-pc.sources 7 7400 261 92% 20 91.4 79% 0.02 0.9% rec.mag 8 5100 179 47% 4 11.1 75% 0.00 0.6% biz.comp.hardware 9 34000 1207 97% 26 326.3 72% 0.02 4.2% news.lists 10 2800 98 37% 3 26.7 67% 0.01 0.3% biz.clarinet 11 48000 1706 93% 65 291.2 64% 0.01 5.9% news.announce.newgroups 12 21000 729 96% 10 14.3 60% 0.00 2.5% comp.os.misc 13 12000 415 97% 10 18.3 60% 0.00 1.4% comp.mail.headers 14 24000 860 98% 25 38.3 58% 0.00 3.0% news.sysadmin 15 13000 459 89% 8 30.0 50% 0.00 1.6% sci.edu 16 3900 138 27% 4 7.0 50% 0.00 0.5% vmsnet.misc 17 3500 123 59% 2 24.0 50% 0.01 0.4% bionet.molbio.evolution 18 1300 47 15% 2 2.5 50% 0.00 0.2% u3b.misc 19 14000 499 97% 58 83.3 47% 0.01 1.7% comp.unix.microport 20 24000 863 96% 11 13.5 45% 0.00 3.0% sci.research 21 12000 427 96% 11 37.8 45% 0.01 1.5% comp.org.decus 22 32000 1111 88% 544 1271.4 40% 0.06 3.8% soc.women 23 18000 644 96% 50 69.9 40% 0.01 2.2% sci.bio 24 50000 1768 98% 172 402.7 38% 0.01 6.1% news.admin 25 21000 748 82% 8 35.1 38% 0.00 2.6% comp.infosystems 26 7000 246 75% 13 25.1 38% 0.00 0.8% talk.rape 27 5600 198 64% 169 303.6 36% 0.06 0.7% rec.aquaria 28 31000 1080 91% 72 139.9 35% 0.01 3.7% comp.editors 29 79000 2769 96% 337 349.4 34% 0.01 9.5% misc.wanted 30 15000 534 87% 53 64.2 34% 0.01 1.8% comp.periphs.printers 31 6100 215 27% 220 420.0 34% 0.03 0.7% unix-pc.general 32 28000 992 89% 378 706.9 33% 0.04 3.4% soc.men 33 27000 953 97% 92 141.7 33% 0.01 3.3% comp.periphs 34 27000 950 91% 123 301.1 33% 0.02 3.3% comp.theory 35 20000 704 88% 135 401.1 33% 0.03 2.4% comp.music 36 6600 231 69% 3 3.5 33% 0.00 0.8% alt.emusic 37 24000 863 97% 174 301.2 32% 0.02 3.0% comp.sys.att 38 17000 602 61% 20 20.9 32% 0.00 2.1% alt.sources.wanted 39 14000 505 79% 175 585.1 32% 0.06 1.7% soc.rights.human 40 17000 593 94% 93 288.5 31% 0.03 2.0% sci.psychology