TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PER-READER COST (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 3000 233 87% 558 1533.9 186 2.30 1.9% talk.religion.misc
2 7400 570 94% 75 2250.7 10 1.40 4.7% mod.mac.binaries
3 4300 330 88% 432 1141.1 100 1.20 2.7% talk.politics.misc
4 8200 629 95% 700 1996.9 85 1.10 5.2% comp.sys.amiga
5 6700 517 96% 622 1694.2 92 1.10 4.2% comp.sys.atari.st
6 3200 244 87% 321 805.6 100 1.10 2.0% rec.ham-radio
7 2200 169 92% 350 561.6 159 1.10 1.4% rec.music.gdead
8 4700 361 87% 517 1056.6 110 1.00 3.0% rec.arts.comics
9 1100 87 65% 10 249.3 9 1.00 0.7% comp.binaries.atari.st
10 2800 216 85% 321 618.0 114 0.99 1.8% rec.motorcycles
11 3000 231 89% 262 632.9 87 0.95 1.9% mod.music.gaffa
12 8100 620 92% 881 1679.6 108 0.93 5.1% rec.arts.sf-lovers
13 3400 259 93% 370 692.9 108 0.92 2.1% soc.culture.indian
14 6700 517 88% 647 1331.8 96 0.89 4.2% soc.women
15 2900 223 84% 354 557.7 122 0.87 1.8% rec.sport.basketball
16 10000 783 88% 987 1884.6 98 0.85 6.4% soc.singles
17 960 74 92% 54 150.8 56 0.71 0.6% soc.culture.greek
18 6700 513 95% 460 1047.2 68 0.70 4.2% mod.computers.vax
19 5700 442 87% 505 874.4 88 0.69 3.6% rec.arts.startrek
20 5800 444 93% 492 839.6 84 0.65 3.6% rec.music.misc
21 1800 138 82% 131 249.9 73 0.62 1.1% misc.handicap
22 2400 185 87% 120 323.8 50 0.61 1.5% talk.origins
23 7400 567 85% 492 880.1 66 0.54 4.7% rec.autos
24 3200 249 85% 244 363.7 76 0.51 2.0% rec.aviation
25 2800 218 85% 170 295.1 60 0.47 1.8% rec.sport.baseball
26 6800 526 87% 421 667.7 61 0.44 4.3% talk.bizarre
27 23000 1801 95% 47 2114.3 2 0.41 14.8% mod.sources
28 3900 299 85% 174 329.0 44 0.38 2.5% rec.bicycles
29 3900 303 88% 184 318.4 47 0.37 2.5% rec.arts.drwho
30 25000 1961 86% 142 2024.8 5 0.36 16.1% net.sources
31 1800 141 92% 68 145.3 38 0.36 1.2% rec.games.bridge
32 7500 578 94% 254 581.0 33 0.35 4.7% sci.space
33 4600 353 88% 137 348.1 29 0.34 2.9% soc.motss
34 3400 264 92% 91 241.3 26 0.32 2.2% rec.games.frp
35 3000 228 92% 58 211.2 19 0.32 1.9% rec.music.folk
36 5400 413 88% 164 374.1 30 0.31 3.4% misc.kids
37 11000 882 96% 567 738.4 51 0.30 7.2% comp.sys.mac
38 9800 756 88% 427 657.5 43 0.30 6.2% rec.arts.movies
39 3200 247 95% 122 210.4 38 0.30 2.0% comp.os.cpm
40 2400 185 84% 127 161.3 52 0.30 1.5% rec.arts.tv.soaps