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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  7400   570   94%    75 2250.7    10   1.40    4.7%  mod.mac.binaries
  2 23000  1801   95%    47 2114.3     2   0.41   14.8%  mod.sources
  3 25000  1961   86%   142 2024.8     5   0.36   16.1%  net.sources
  4  8200   629   95%   700 1996.9    85   1.10    5.2%  comp.sys.amiga
  5 10000   783   88%   987 1884.6    98   0.85    6.4%  soc.singles
  6  6700   517   96%   622 1694.2    92   1.10    4.2%  comp.sys.atari.st
  7  8100   620   92%   881 1679.6   108   0.93    5.1%  rec.arts.sf-lovers
  8  3000   233   87%   558 1533.9   186   2.30    1.9%  talk.religion.misc
  9  6700   517   88%   647 1331.8    96   0.89    4.2%  soc.women
 10  4300   330   88%   432 1141.1   100   1.20    2.7%  talk.politics.misc
 11  4700   361   87%   517 1056.6   110   1.00    3.0%  rec.arts.comics
 12  6700   513   95%   460 1047.2    68   0.70    4.2%  mod.computers.vax
 13 17000  1321   96%   551 1013.3    32   0.27   10.8%  comp.sys.ibm.pc
 14  7400   567   85%   492  880.1    66   0.54    4.7%  rec.autos
 15  5700   442   87%   505  874.4    88   0.69    3.6%  rec.arts.startrek
 16  5800   444   93%   492  839.6    84   0.65    3.6%  rec.music.misc
 17  3200   244   87%   321  805.6   100   1.10    2.0%  rec.ham-radio
 18 11000   882   96%   567  738.4    51   0.30    7.2%  comp.sys.mac
 19  3400   259   93%   370  692.9   108   0.92    2.1%  soc.culture.indian
 20 11000   824   95%   277  680.8    25   0.28    6.8%  comp.arch
 21  6800   526   87%   421  667.7    61   0.44    4.3%  talk.bizarre
 22  9800   756   88%   427  657.5    43   0.30    6.2%  rec.arts.movies
 23  3000   231   89%   262  632.9    87   0.95    1.9%  mod.music.gaffa
 24 17000  1276   87%   501  626.1    29   0.17   10.5%  rec.humor
 25 16000  1214   97%   382  624.4    23   0.18   10.0%  comp.unix.wizards
 26  2800   216   85%   321  618.0   114   0.99    1.8%  rec.motorcycles
 27  7500   578   94%   254  581.0    33   0.35    4.7%  sci.space
 28  9000   692   89%   321  564.6    35   0.28    5.7%  rec.audio
 29  2200   169   92%   350  561.6   159   1.10    1.4%  rec.music.gdead
 30  2900   223   84%   354  557.7   122   0.87    1.8%  rec.sport.basketball
 31 14000  1061   96%   301  492.9    21   0.16    8.7%  comp.unix.questions
 32  8500   652   93%    18  434.9     2   0.23    5.3%  mod.mac
 33  6500   499   87%   268  398.8    41   0.28    4.1%  rec.arts.tv
 34 10000   768   81%   247  398.2    24   0.18    6.3%  comp.windows.x
 35  9100   701   97%   230  378.6    25   0.19    5.8%  comp.emacs
 36  5400   413   88%   164  374.1    30   0.31    3.4%  misc.kids
 37  7000   535   96%   232  368.5    33   0.24    4.4%  mod.protocols.tcp-ip
 38  3200   249   85%   244  363.7    76   0.51    2.0%  rec.aviation
 39  6800   523   95%   172  350.0    25   0.23    4.3%  sci.med
 40  4600   353   88%   137  348.1    29   0.34    2.9%  soc.motss