USENET costs (from Brian Reid)
Balaji Narasimhan
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>From: re...@glacier.ARPA (Brian Reid)
Subject: USENET costs--who's paying for what?
Message-ID: <53...@glacier.ARPA>
Date: 16 Mar 86 08:53:09 GMT
Date-Received: 18 Mar 86 12:31:39 GMT
Organization: Stanford University, Computer Systems Lab
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I've been taking readership data for USENET lately. This data consists of
summaries from 100 sites about the number of readers of various newsgroups.
I then collect it all back at glacier, add the traffic data, and produce
this result. I'm not proposing to do anything with this information, but other
people might.
TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PER-READER COST
+-- estimated total number of people who read this group, worldwide
| +-- approximate $US per reader per month spent sending
| | this group, worldwide.
| | +-- (rating) percentage of the total user population
| | | who read this group
| | | +-- (share) percentage of newsreaders who read
| | | | this group.
V V V V
1403 $33.84 0.66 2.44 net.religion.christian
1348 24.15 0.63 2.34 net.philosophy
2505 21.65 1.17 4.35 net.politics
1789 18.51 0.84 3.11 net.religion
1211 16.98 0.57 2.10 net.abortion
3716 13.10 1.74 6.46 net.space
4982 11.91 2.33 8.66 net.singles
2807 11.51 1.32 4.88 mod.techreports
5326 10.94 2.50 9.25 net.women
4308 10.30 2.02 7.48 net.music
4087 9.55 1.91 7.10 net.micro.amiga
4569 9.51 2.14 7.94 net.sources.mac
12649 9.31 5.92 21.98 net.sources
6799 8.83 3.18 11.81 net.sources.games
1624 8.62 0.76 2.82 net.comics
1665 8.36 0.78 2.89 net.sport.hoops
2918 7.41 1.37 5.07 net.cse
10171 7.33 4.76 17.67 mod.sources
2505 7.15 1.17 4.35 net.startrek
3317 6.72 1.55 5.76 net.sf-lovers
4005 6.46 1.88 6.96 net.auto
867 6.36 0.41 1.51 net.sport.hockey
2518 5.33 1.18 4.38 net.kids
2463 5.28 1.15 4.28 mod.computers.vax
1486 5.28 0.70 2.58 net.ham-radio
2188 5.24 1.03 3.80 net.motss
1500 5.11 0.70 2.61 net.tv.drwho
1541 4.93 0.72 2.68 net.games.pbm
3124 4.87 1.46 5.43 net.micro.apple
5767 4.86 2.70 10.02 net.micro.pc
4858 4.74 2.28 8.44 net.movies
* 1803 4.71 0.84 3.13 net.nlang.india
1403 4.63 0.66 2.44 net.cycle
6083 4.62 2.85 10.57 net.micro.mac
2766 4.49 1.30 4.81 net.music.classical
6331 4.19 2.97 11.00 net.arch
2408 4.08 1.13 4.18 net.nlang
2064 4.05 0.97 3.59 net.aviation
4143 4.03 1.94 7.20 net.news.group
5574 3.95 2.61 9.68 net.audio
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Brian Reid decwrl!glacier!reid
Stanford re...@SU-Glacier.ARPA