Xref: utzoo news.lists:1125 news.groups:18295 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!bridge2!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 POPULARITY (FEB 90) Message-ID: <414@apostrophe.dec.com> Date: 1 Mar 90 15:51:45 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 1110000 3723 95% 65 142.5 0% 0.00 12.8% rec.humor.funny 2 97000 3426 75% 1703 3597.4 15% 0.05 11.8% alt.sex 3 87000 3074 98% 40 291.3 3% 0.01 10.6% news.announce.conferences 4 87000 3070 94% 298 619.5 10% 0.01 10.6% misc.jobs.offered 5 82000 2882 92% 1520 2956.9 4% 0.06 9.9% rec.humor 6 79000 2769 96% 337 349.4 34% 0.01 9.5% misc.wanted 7 76000 2665 93% 829 956.2 27% 0.02 9.2% misc.forsale 8 74000 2604 97% 1984 2889.5 10% 0.07 9.0% comp.sys.ibm.pc 9 73000 2573 97% 437 820.1 15% 0.02 8.9% comp.graphics 10 71000 2504 98% 7 87.6 14% 0.00 8.6% news.announce.newusers 11 66000 2316 97% 1046 1974.1 23% 0.05 8.0% news.groups 12 65000 2303 97% 51 1942.9 0% 0.05 7.9% comp.sources.misc 13 64000 2273 97% 1918 2828.8 9% 0.08 7.8% comp.sys.mac 14 62000 2202 98% 667 1057.2 11% 0.03 7.6% comp.unix.questions 15 59000 2096 98% 750 1287.5 17% 0.04 7.2% comp.lang.c 16 57000 2014 96% 273 760.9 24% 0.02 6.9% comp.ai 17 57000 1997 97% 136 212.1 22% 0.01 6.9% comp.misc 18 57000 1993 97% 1375 2105.3 4% 0.07 6.9% comp.windows.x 19 54000 1905 98% 336 544.7 13% 0.02 6.6% comp.unix.wizards 20 51000 1802 94% 226 376.2 9% 0.01 6.2% misc.jobs.misc 21 51000 1800 93% 1526 2719.3 6% 0.09 6.2% rec.arts.movies 22 50000 1771 66% 292 788.3 7% 0.02 6.1% alt.sex.bondage 23 50000 1768 98% 172 402.7 38% 0.01 6.1% news.admin 24 50000 1767 84% 52 948.5 12% 0.03 6.1% alt.sources 25 48000 1706 93% 65 291.2 64% 0.01 5.9% news.announce.newgroups 26 48000 1684 96% 863 1755.3 5% 0.06 5.8% comp.arch 27 45000 1576 93% 669 1199.2 10% 0.05 5.4% misc.consumers 28 44000 1555 98% 98 180.2 14% 0.01 5.3% news.misc 29 44000 1543 88% 1774 3325.6 19% 0.12 5.3% soc.singles 30 43000 1533 97% 323 591.8 22% 0.02 5.3% comp.lang.c++ 31 43000 1516 97% 331 345.2 21% 0.01 5.2% comp.sources.wanted 32 42000 1481 95% 538 1129.3 5% 0.05 5.1% comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d 33 41000 1462 96% 82 2523.0 0% 0.11 5.0% comp.binaries.mac 34 41000 1460 92% 2291 3976.9 1% 0.16 5.0% rec.arts.startrek 35 41000 1443 96% 484 685.2 6% 0.03 5.0% sci.electronics 36 41000 1437 96% 529 910.5 13% 0.04 4.9% sci.math 37 41000 1428 96% 102 286.0 23% 0.01 4.9% comp.software-eng 38 40000 1420 97% 21 997.5 10% 0.04 4.9% comp.sources.unix 39 40000 1413 91% 1525 2997.9 3% 0.12 4.9% soc.culture.indian 40 40000 1402 97% 54 2759.6 0% 0.12 4.8% comp.sources.games