TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY TRAFFIC VOLUME (MAR 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 7400 570 94% 75 2250.7 10 1.40 4.7% mod.mac.binaries
2 23000 1801 95% 47 2114.3 2 0.41 14.8% mod.sources
3 25000 1961 86% 142 2024.8 5 0.36 16.1% net.sources
4 8200 629 95% 700 1996.9 85 1.10 5.2% comp.sys.amiga
5 10000 783 88% 987 1884.6 98 0.85 6.4% soc.singles
6 6700 517 96% 622 1694.2 92 1.10 4.2% comp.sys.atari.st
7 8100 620 92% 881 1679.6 108 0.93 5.1% rec.arts.sf-lovers
8 3000 233 87% 558 1533.9 186 2.30 1.9% talk.religion.misc
9 6700 517 88% 647 1331.8 96 0.89 4.2% soc.women
10 4300 330 88% 432 1141.1 100 1.20 2.7% talk.politics.misc
11 4700 361 87% 517 1056.6 110 1.00 3.0% rec.arts.comics
12 6700 513 95% 460 1047.2 68 0.70 4.2% mod.computers.vax
13 17000 1321 96% 551 1013.3 32 0.27 10.8% comp.sys.ibm.pc
14 7400 567 85% 492 880.1 66 0.54 4.7% rec.autos
15 5700 442 87% 505 874.4 88 0.69 3.6% rec.arts.startrek
16 5800 444 93% 492 839.6 84 0.65 3.6% rec.music.misc
17 3200 244 87% 321 805.6 100 1.10 2.0% rec.ham-radio
18 11000 882 96% 567 738.4 51 0.30 7.2% comp.sys.mac
19 3400 259 93% 370 692.9 108 0.92 2.1% soc.culture.indian
20 11000 824 95% 277 680.8 25 0.28 6.8% comp.arch
21 6800 526 87% 421 667.7 61 0.44 4.3% talk.bizarre
22 9800 756 88% 427 657.5 43 0.30 6.2% rec.arts.movies
23 3000 231 89% 262 632.9 87 0.95 1.9% mod.music.gaffa
24 17000 1276 87% 501 626.1 29 0.17 10.5% rec.humor
25 16000 1214 97% 382 624.4 23 0.18 10.0% comp.unix.wizards
26 2800 216 85% 321 618.0 114 0.99 1.8% rec.motorcycles
27 7500 578 94% 254 581.0 33 0.35 4.7% sci.space
28 9000 692 89% 321 564.6 35 0.28 5.7% rec.audio
29 2200 169 92% 350 561.6 159 1.10 1.4% rec.music.gdead
30 2900 223 84% 354 557.7 122 0.87 1.8% rec.sport.basketball
31 14000 1061 96% 301 492.9 21 0.16 8.7% comp.unix.questions
32 8500 652 93% 18 434.9 2 0.23 5.3% mod.mac
33 6500 499 87% 268 398.8 41 0.28 4.1% rec.arts.tv
34 10000 768 81% 247 398.2 24 0.18 6.3% comp.windows.x
35 9100 701 97% 230 378.6 25 0.19 5.8% comp.emacs
36 5400 413 88% 164 374.1 30 0.31 3.4% misc.kids
37 7000 535 96% 232 368.5 33 0.24 4.4% mod.protocols.tcp-ip
38 3200 249 85% 244 363.7 76 0.51 2.0% rec.aviation
39 6800 523 95% 172 350.0 25 0.23 4.3% sci.med
40 4600 353 88% 137 348.1 29 0.34 2.9% soc.motss