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Started by reid
Sun, 01 Mar 1987 12:22
TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY (FEB 87)
Author: reid
Date: Sun, 01 Mar 1987 12:22
Date: Sun, 01 Mar 1987 12:22
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TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY
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 27000 1950 88% 114 1161.3 4 0.17 17.0% net.sources
2 23000 1688 96% 57 2232.2 2 0.39 14.7% mod.sources
3 20000 1427 89% 171 321.8 8 0.06 12.5% misc.consumers.house
4 18000 1307 94% 182 423.1 10 0.09 11.4% misc.jobs
5 17000 1215 93% 22 65.6 1 0.02 10.6% mod.conferences
6 16000 1166 95% 791 1598.1 49 0.40 10.2% comp.sys.ibm.pc
7 16000 1147 88% 57 92.5 3 0.02 10.0% net.sources.games
8 15000 1125 96% 282 403.5 18 0.11 9.8% comp.unix.wizards
9 15000 1089 89% 38 98.8 2 0.03 9.5% net.sources.bugs
10 14000 1054 85% 490 795.0 35 0.23 9.2% rec.humor
11 14000 1053 96% 158 212.0 11 0.06 9.2% comp.sources.d
12 14000 1015 95% 264 352.8 18 0.10 8.9% comp.unix.questions
13 13000 983 94% 90 138.6 6 0.04 8.6% comp.misc
14 13000 932 95% 87 93.3 6 0.03 8.1% misc.wanted
15 13000 929 95% 284 451.3 21 0.14 8.1% comp.lang.c
16 12000 885 94% 4 5.8 0 0.00 7.7% mod.announce
17 12000 880 96% 12 38.1 1 0.01 7.7% news.misc
18 12000 879 94% 67 103.2 5 0.03 7.7% mod.telecom
19 12000 870 96% 214 270.3 17 0.09 7.6% comp.sources.wanted
20 12000 863 95% 15 30.7 1 0.01 7.5% mod.newprod
21 12000 859 95% 7 313.4 0 0.10 7.5% mod.computers.ibm-pc
22 12000 852 95% 111 150.5 9 0.05 7.4% comp.graphics
23 12000 842 62% 215 341.1 17 0.11 7.3% comp.windows.x
24 12000 838 88% 67 66.8 5 0.02 7.3% misc.forsale
25 11000 816 88% 20 171.3 1 0.06 7.1% net.sources.mac
26 11000 809 96% 427 643.1 38 0.23 7.1% comp.sys.mac
27 11000 804 96% 122 244.0 11 0.09 7.0% news.groups
28 11000 804 95% 248 543.6 22 0.20 7.0% comp.arch
29 11000 789 95% 60 178.6 5 0.06 6.9% mod.recipes
30 11000 775 96% 2 27.3 0 0.01 6.8% mod.newslists
31 11000 772 94% 47 114.1 4 0.04 6.7% mod.os
32 10000 760 95% 141 359.1 14 0.14 6.6% mod.ai
33 10000 757 95% 71 271.6 7 0.11 6.6% comp.ai
34 10000 738 95% 11 19.0 1 0.01 6.4% mod.compilers
35 10000 733 89% 1167 2170.2 116 0.87 6.4% soc.singles
36 10000 731 76% 211 328.4 21 0.13 6.4% comp.os.minix
37 9800 716 86% 334 541.5 34 0.22 6.2% rec.arts.movies
38 9800 715 96% 12 25.1 1 0.01 6.2% mod.computers.workstations
39 9600 696 96% 170 251.0 17 0.10 6.1% comp.text
40 9500 691 94% 94 130.5 9 0.05 6.0% misc.misc
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