TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PER-READER COST (JAN 87)
Brian Reid
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 3500 275 87% 692 1795.8 197 2.10 2.5% talk.politics.misc
2 2400 192 87% 424 1156.2 176 2.00 1.7% talk.religion.misc
3 5000 397 89% 688 2298.1 137 1.90 3.6% comp.sys.amiga
4 5100 400 90% 600 2182.3 117 1.70 3.6% comp.sys.atari.st
5 2700 215 79% 465 1069.5 172 1.60 1.9% rec.arts.comics
6 5900 462 87% 641 1606.4 108 1.10 4.2% soc.women
7 5600 446 83% 731 1384.3 130 1.00 4.0% rec.arts.sf-lovers
8 3100 243 89% 274 741.1 88 0.97 2.2% mod.music.gaffa
9 2000 155 89% 125 476.4 62 0.96 1.4% comp.sys.atari.8bit
10 1700 137 87% 122 398.5 72 0.95 1.2% talk.abortion
11 2400 186 78% 320 544.2 133 0.92 1.7% rec.aviation
12 1600 128 44% 7 330.6 4 0.84 1.2% mod.mag.fidonet
13 9000 714 86% 980 1854.2 108 0.83 6.4% soc.singles
14 2100 168 78% 187 429.2 89 0.83 1.5% rec.ham-radio
15 3000 235 92% 304 553.6 101 0.75 2.1% soc.culture.indian
16 2000 154 88% 114 371.4 57 0.75 1.4% talk.philosophy.misc
17 2000 158 87% 130 354.3 65 0.72 1.4% talk.origins
18 3000 236 92% 194 514.7 64 0.69 2.1% soc.culture.jewish
19 3800 299 83% 394 641.7 103 0.68 2.7% rec.music.misc
20 1500 116 82% 198 249.8 132 0.67 1.0% rec.music.gdead
21 4700 373 79% 478 766.4 101 0.66 3.4% rec.arts.startrek
22 26000 2072 90% 268 4044.3 10 0.63 18.6% net.sources
23 2800 218 77% 285 437.8 102 0.63 2.0% rec.sport.football
24 2900 227 85% 217 438.5 74 0.61 2.0% rec.music.synth
25 15000 1147 96% 41 1754.5 2 0.47 10.3% mod.sources
26 2400 191 82% 110 279.5 45 0.47 1.7% rec.games.frp
27 1400 113 62% 57 159.9 40 0.46 1.0% misc.handicap
28 5600 440 80% 350 602.3 62 0.44 4.0% rec.audio
29 7600 601 96% 21 791.7 2 0.42 5.4% mod.mac.binaries
30 2100 166 77% 138 213.3 65 0.41 1.5% rec.motorcycles
31 12000 932 90% 615 1166.2 51 0.39 8.4% comp.sys.ibm.pc
32 7000 549 91% 277 655.9 39 0.38 4.9% sci.space
33 2600 206 78% 167 230.0 64 0.36 1.9% rec.arts.drwho
34 8800 697 90% 65 770.1 7 0.35 6.3% comp.ai
35 4100 322 79% 261 359.2 63 0.35 2.9% rec.video
36 9900 779 96% 518 834.3 52 0.34 7.0% mod.computers.vax
37 1600 125 82% 72 135.7 45 0.34 1.1% rec.games.bridge
38 3500 278 90% 227 284.5 64 0.33 2.5% comp.sys.apple
39 3500 275 83% 184 288.6 52 0.33 2.5% rec.games.hack
40 3300 264 38% 184 268.6 55 0.33 2.4% comp.os.minix