TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PER-READER COST (FEB 87)
re...@decwrl.uucp
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)
| | | | | +-- Participation ratio
| | | | | | +-- Cost ratio: $US/month/reader
| | | | | | | +-- Share: % of newsreaders
| | | | | | | | who read this group.
V V V V V V V V
1 3300 240 88% 395 1241.0 119 1.50 2.1% talk.religion.misc
2 1900 137 89% 75 697.0 39 1.50 1.2% rec.games.pbm
3 2600 190 82% 394 880.5 151 1.40 1.7% rec.ham-radio
4 7700 560 95% 557 2597.7 72 1.30 4.9% comp.sys.amiga
5 4500 325 89% 524 1396.1 116 1.20 2.8% talk.politics.misc
6 6600 480 95% 561 1812.5 85 1.10 4.2% comp.sys.atari.st
7 4000 292 85% 544 1141.6 136 1.10 2.5% rec.arts.comics
8 2500 183 89% 224 675.3 89 1.10 1.6% talk.origins
9 3000 216 88% 325 753.5 108 1.00 1.9% mod.music.gaffa
10 3200 231 82% 507 776.0 158 0.97 2.0% rec.aviation
11 10000 733 89% 1167 2170.2 116 0.87 6.4% soc.singles
12 5100 371 90% 590 999.7 115 0.78 3.2% rec.music.misc
13 6500 477 89% 574 1252.1 88 0.77 4.2% soc.women
14 1600 116 73% 105 292.6 66 0.73 1.0% misc.handicap
15 2300 164 71% 165 389.0 72 0.68 1.4% talk.religion.newage
16 2000 149 89% 235 300.7 117 0.60 1.3% rec.music.gdead
17 7900 576 89% 535 1116.1 67 0.57 5.0% rec.arts.sf-lovers
18 7500 543 95% 41 998.9 5 0.53 4.7% mod.mac.binaries
19 7400 541 95% 594 987.4 80 0.53 4.7% mod.computers.vax
20 2600 191 90% 108 343.3 41 0.53 1.7% talk.philosophy.misc
21 3000 218 93% 168 389.8 56 0.52 1.9% soc.culture.jewish
22 2400 176 95% 97 312.3 40 0.52 1.5% comp.sys.atari.8bit
23 1600 120 88% 70 177.2 43 0.44 1.0% talk.abortion
24 16000 1166 95% 791 1598.1 49 0.40 10.2% comp.sys.ibm.pc
25 23000 1688 96% 57 2232.2 2 0.39 14.7% mod.sources
26 6600 484 95% 308 647.0 46 0.39 4.2% sci.physics
27 5800 426 84% 341 565.6 58 0.39 3.7% rec.arts.tv
28 2500 183 82% 182 236.7 73 0.38 1.6% rec.sport.baseball
29 3900 286 91% 171 351.0 43 0.36 2.5% rec.music.synth
30 3200 230 89% 140 291.0 43 0.36 2.0% rec.games.frp
31 8700 634 87% 451 757.9 51 0.35 5.5% rec.audio
32 3400 247 94% 178 294.6 52 0.35 2.2% soc.culture.indian
33 5700 414 84% 290 479.8 50 0.34 3.6% rec.arts.startrek
34 2900 214 82% 127 229.2 43 0.32 1.9% rec.sport.football
35 2600 187 81% 138 207.9 53 0.32 1.6% rec.sport.basketball
36 7900 572 96% 272 613.0 34 0.31 5.0% sci.math
37 2500 179 82% 114 193.5 45 0.31 1.6% rec.motorcycles
38 7500 548 94% 268 564.3 35 0.30 4.8% sci.space
39 7300 532 95% 271 541.2 37 0.30 4.6% sci.astro
40 2500 179 82% 101 187.0 40 0.30 1.6% rec.arts.tv.soaps