TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PROPAGATION (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 8800 638 97% 110 132.6 12 0.06 5.6% sci.electronics
2 23000 1688 96% 57 2232.2 2 0.39 14.7% mod.sources
3 15000 1125 96% 282 403.5 18 0.11 9.8% comp.unix.wizards
4 14000 1053 96% 158 212.0 11 0.06 9.2% comp.sources.d
5 12000 880 96% 12 38.1 1 0.01 7.7% news.misc
6 12000 870 96% 214 270.3 17 0.09 7.6% comp.sources.wanted
7 11000 809 96% 427 643.1 38 0.23 7.1% comp.sys.mac
8 11000 804 96% 122 244.0 11 0.09 7.0% news.groups
9 11000 775 96% 2 27.3 0 0.01 6.8% mod.newslists
10 9800 715 96% 12 25.1 1 0.01 6.2% mod.computers.workstations
11 9600 696 96% 170 251.0 17 0.10 6.1% comp.text
12 9000 658 96% 60 93.7 6 0.04 5.7% mod.computers.laser-printers
13 8900 651 96% 145 192.6 16 0.09 5.7% comp.emacs
14 8900 648 96% 51 91.5 5 0.04 5.7% comp.dcom.lans
15 8800 638 96% 178 269.7 20 0.12 5.6% comp.dcom.modems
16 8600 623 96% 60 120.6 6 0.06 5.4% news.admin
17 8200 601 96% 88 233.1 10 0.11 5.2% comp.mail.uucp
18 8200 597 96% 17 31.2 2 0.02 5.2% comp.bugs.misc
19 8100 587 96% 14 42.5 1 0.02 5.1% comp.databases
20 7900 572 96% 272 613.0 34 0.31 5.0% sci.math
21 7800 569 96% 54 89.3 6 0.05 5.0% comp.lang.c++
22 7300 529 96% 14 14.6 1 0.01 4.6% news.config
23 7000 507 96% 18 30.2 2 0.02 4.4% comp.bugs.sys5
24 6900 502 96% 10 10.4 1 0.01 4.4% comp.org.usenix
25 6900 500 96% 5 16.0 0 0.01 4.4% news.sysadmin
26 6700 486 96% 108 307.7 16 0.18 4.2% news.software.b
27 6200 449 96% 30 28.7 4 0.02 3.9% news.newsites
28 5400 390 96% 18 42.5 3 0.03 3.4% comp.mail.headers
29 4900 356 96% 4 9.1 0 0.01 3.1% sci.math.symbolic
30 4600 338 96% 27 37.1 5 0.03 3.0% comp.lang.ada
31 4500 327 96% 7 11.8 1 0.01 2.9% sci.math.stat
32 16000 1166 95% 791 1598.1 49 0.40 10.2% comp.sys.ibm.pc
33 14000 1015 95% 264 352.8 18 0.10 8.9% comp.unix.questions
34 13000 932 95% 87 93.3 6 0.03 8.1% misc.wanted
35 13000 929 95% 284 451.3 21 0.14 8.1% comp.lang.c
36 12000 863 95% 15 30.7 1 0.01 7.5% mod.newprod
37 12000 859 95% 7 313.4 0 0.10 7.5% mod.computers.ibm-pc
38 12000 852 95% 111 150.5 9 0.05 7.4% comp.graphics
39 11000 804 95% 248 543.6 22 0.20 7.0% comp.arch
40 11000 789 95% 60 178.6 5 0.06 6.9% mod.recipes