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Started by reid
Thu, 02 Apr 1987 19:08
TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY (MAR 87)
Author: reid
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 1987 19:08
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 1987 19:08
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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 25000 1961 86% 142 2024.8 5 0.36 16.1% net.sources
2 23000 1801 95% 47 2114.3 2 0.41 14.8% mod.sources
3 22000 1660 95% 7 56.7 0 0.01 13.6% mod.announce.newusers
4 20000 1537 89% 168 250.6 8 0.06 12.6% misc.consumers.house
5 18000 1359 94% 104 209.5 5 0.05 11.2% misc.jobs
6 17000 1336 94% 15 79.7 0 0.02 11.0% mod.conferences
7 17000 1321 96% 551 1013.3 32 0.27 10.8% comp.sys.ibm.pc
8 17000 1276 87% 501 626.1 29 0.17 10.5% rec.humor
9 16000 1214 97% 382 624.4 23 0.18 10.0% comp.unix.wizards
10 16000 1200 93% 4 3.9 0 0.00 9.8% mod.announce
11 15000 1187 84% 21 90.3 1 0.03 9.7% net.sources.games
12 15000 1116 95% 2 3.5 0 0.00 9.2% mod.newprod
13 14000 1097 97% 61 118.2 4 0.04 9.0% comp.sources.d
14 14000 1061 96% 301 492.9 21 0.16 8.7% comp.unix.questions
15 14000 1048 85% 45 213.9 3 0.07 8.6% net.sources.bugs
16 13000 1022 96% 131 172.3 10 0.06 8.4% misc.wanted
17 13000 976 94% 62 104.5 4 0.04 8.0% comp.misc
18 12000 958 96% 204 324.2 17 0.12 7.9% comp.lang.c
19 12000 931 96% 72 126.0 6 0.05 7.6% comp.graphics
20 12000 929 97% 90 114.0 7 0.04 7.6% comp.sources.wanted
21 12000 897 88% 95 111.9 7 0.04 7.4% misc.forsale
22 12000 887 97% 21 36.9 1 0.01 7.3% news.misc
23 12000 885 95% 5 241.6 0 0.09 7.3% mod.computers.ibm-pc
24 11000 882 96% 567 738.4 51 0.30 7.2% comp.sys.mac
25 11000 854 94% 18 30.8 1 0.01 7.0% mod.compilers
26 11000 844 95% 50 112.2 4 0.05 6.9% mod.telecom
27 11000 837 94% 38 104.5 3 0.04 6.9% mod.os
28 11000 824 95% 277 680.8 25 0.28 6.8% comp.arch
29 11000 824 95% 70 218.5 6 0.09 6.8% mod.recipes
30 11000 812 97% 70 154.2 6 0.06 6.7% news.groups
31 11000 809 86% 72 116.0 6 0.05 6.6% comp.os.minix
32 10000 785 95% 58 257.9 5 0.12 6.4% comp.ai
33 10000 784 96% 24 347.2 2 0.16 6.4% comp.bugs.4bsd.ucb-fixes
34 10000 783 88% 987 1884.6 98 0.85 6.4% soc.singles
35 10000 768 81% 247 398.2 24 0.18 6.3% comp.windows.x
36 9800 756 88% 427 657.5 43 0.30 6.2% rec.arts.movies
37 9700 746 96% 111 157.0 11 0.07 6.1% comp.text
38 9700 743 95% 112 245.1 11 0.11 6.1% mod.ai
39 9600 737 96% 4 52.3 0 0.02 6.0% mod.newslists
40 9400 723 96% 17 34.5 1 0.02 5.9% mod.computers.workstations
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