🚀 go-pugleaf

TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY TRAFFIC VOLUME
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  7700   560   95%   557 2597.7    72   1.30    4.9%  comp.sys.amiga
  2 23000  1688   96%    57 2232.2     2   0.39   14.7%  mod.sources
  3 10000   733   89%  1167 2170.2   116   0.87    6.4%  soc.singles
  4  6600   480   95%   561 1812.5    85   1.10    4.2%  comp.sys.atari.st
  5 16000  1166   95%   791 1598.1    49   0.40   10.2%  comp.sys.ibm.pc
  6  4500   325   89%   524 1396.1   116   1.20    2.8%  talk.politics.misc
  7  6500   477   89%   574 1252.1    88   0.77    4.2%  soc.women
  8  3300   240   88%   395 1241.0   119   1.50    2.1%  talk.religion.misc
  9 27000  1950   88%   114 1161.3     4   0.17   17.0%  net.sources
 10  4000   292   85%   544 1141.6   136   1.10    2.5%  rec.arts.comics
 11  7900   576   89%   535 1116.1    67   0.57    5.0%  rec.arts.sf-lovers
 12  5100   371   90%   590  999.7   115   0.78    3.2%  rec.music.misc
 13  7500   543   95%    41  998.9     5   0.53    4.7%  mod.mac.binaries
 14  7400   541   95%   594  987.4    80   0.53    4.7%  mod.computers.vax
 15  2600   190   82%   394  880.5   151   1.40    1.7%  rec.ham-radio
 16 14000  1054   85%   490  795.0    35   0.23    9.2%  rec.humor
 17  3200   231   82%   507  776.0   158   0.97    2.0%  rec.aviation
 18  8700   634   87%   451  757.9    51   0.35    5.5%  rec.audio
 19  3000   216   88%   325  753.5   108   1.00    1.9%  mod.music.gaffa
 20  1900   137   89%    75  697.0    39   1.50    1.2%  rec.games.pbm
 21  2500   183   89%   224  675.3    89   1.10    1.6%  talk.origins
 22  6600   484   95%   308  647.0    46   0.39    4.2%  sci.physics
 23 11000   809   96%   427  643.1    38   0.23    7.1%  comp.sys.mac
 24  7900   572   96%   272  613.0    34   0.31    5.0%  sci.math
 25  5800   426   84%   341  565.6    58   0.39    3.7%  rec.arts.tv
 26  7500   548   94%   268  564.3    35   0.30    4.8%  sci.space
 27 11000   804   95%   248  543.6    22   0.20    7.0%  comp.arch
 28  9800   716   86%   334  541.5    34   0.22    6.2%  rec.arts.movies
 29  7300   532   95%   271  541.2    37   0.30    4.6%  sci.astro
 30  5700   414   84%   290  479.8    50   0.34    3.6%  rec.arts.startrek
 31  8400   613   94%    18  477.4     2   0.23    5.4%  mod.mac
 32  7400   536   95%   238  456.9    32   0.25    4.7%  sci.med
 33 13000   929   95%   284  451.3    21   0.14    8.1%  comp.lang.c
 34 18000  1307   94%   182  423.1    10   0.09   11.4%  misc.jobs
 35 15000  1125   96%   282  403.5    18   0.11    9.8%  comp.unix.wizards
 36  7600   555   89%   268  403.3    35   0.21    4.8%  talk.bizarre
 37  3000   218   93%   168  389.8    56   0.52    1.9%  soc.culture.jewish
 38  2300   164   71%   165  389.0    72   0.68    1.4%  talk.religion.newage
 39 10000   760   95%   141  359.1    14   0.14    6.6%  mod.ai
 40 14000  1015   95%   264  352.8    18   0.10    8.9%  comp.unix.questions