TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY (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 26000 2072 90% 268 4044.3 10 0.63 18.6% net.sources
2 18000 1401 95% 1 2.1 0 0.00 12.6% mod.announce
3 17000 1373 87% 182 264.9 10 0.06 12.3% misc.consumers.house
4 15000 1208 92% 121 242.0 8 0.07 10.9% misc.jobs
5 15000 1196 90% 55 593.8 3 0.16 10.8% net.sources.games
6 15000 1191 95% 4 14.6 0 0.00 10.7% mod.conferences
7 15000 1147 96% 41 1754.5 2 0.47 10.3% mod.sources
8 14000 1067 90% 45 87.5 3 0.03 9.6% net.sources.bugs
9 12000 949 90% 102 177.8 8 0.06 8.5% comp.misc
10 12000 934 91% 217 295.1 18 0.10 8.4% comp.unix.wizards
11 12000 932 90% 615 1166.2 51 0.39 8.4% comp.sys.ibm.pc
12 11000 885 92% 112 171.6 10 0.06 8.0% comp.sources.d
13 11000 871 89% 404 594.0 36 0.22 7.8% comp.unix.questions
14 11000 860 90% 7 81.5 0 0.03 7.7% net.sources.mac
15 11000 850 93% 62 65.4 5 0.02 7.6% misc.wanted
16 11000 835 96% 4 8.2 0 0.00 7.5% mod.newprod
17 10000 825 96% 60 157.2 6 0.06 7.4% mod.recipes
18 10000 822 97% 2 24.4 0 0.01 7.4% mod.newslists
19 10000 821 95% 88 214.9 8 0.09 7.4% mod.ai
20 10000 809 79% 605 722.7 60 0.29 7.3% rec.humor
21 10000 803 93% 37 56.2 3 0.02 7.2% news.misc
22 10000 798 87% 51 54.2 5 0.02 7.2% misc.forsale
23 9900 781 90% 354 656.6 35 0.27 7.0% comp.lang.c
24 9900 779 96% 518 834.3 52 0.34 7.0% mod.computers.vax
25 9800 772 96% 5 308.7 0 0.13 6.9% mod.computers.ibm-pc
26 9600 760 91% 150 177.9 15 0.08 6.8% comp.sources.wanted
27 9300 732 90% 141 254.2 15 0.11 6.6% comp.arch
28 9200 730 96% 78 122.9 8 0.05 6.6% mod.telecom
29 9200 728 90% 131 238.3 14 0.10 6.5% comp.graphics
30 9000 714 86% 980 1854.2 108 0.83 6.4% soc.singles
31 8800 697 90% 65 770.1 7 0.35 6.3% comp.ai
32 8800 695 95% 37 79.5 4 0.04 6.2% mod.os
33 8800 692 96% 22 525.7 2 0.24 6.2% mod.mac
34 8700 688 91% 121 174.7 13 0.08 6.2% news.groups
35 8500 670 91% 467 634.2 54 0.30 6.0% comp.sys.mac
36 8400 662 96% 14 25.2 1 0.01 6.0% mod.computers.laser-printers
37 8400 662 87% 132 214.4 15 0.10 6.0% talk.rumors
38 8300 658 92% 100 170.9 12 0.08 5.9% misc.misc
39 8200 645 97% 38 75.1 4 0.04 5.8% mod.std.unix
40 8100 642 95% 1 1.3 0 0.00 5.8% mod.os.unix