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Subject: TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY AMOUNT OF CROSSPOSTING (AUG 88)
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Date: 3 Sep 88 09:51:14 GMT
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TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY AMOUNT OF CROSSPOSTING
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)
| | | | | +-- Crossposting percentage
| | | | | | +-- Cost ratio: $US/month/reader
| | | | | | | +-- Share: % of newsreaders
| | | | | | | | who read this group.
V V V V V V V V
1 29000 2313 99% 1 38.7 100% 0.00 11.6% comp.sources.unix
2 1300 106 93% 2 1.8 100% 0.00 0.5% comp.sys.tahoe
3 2600 206 63% 6 12.1 83% 0.01 1.0% sci.math.num-analysis
4 6500 514 97% 32 60.9 70% 0.02 2.6% sci.bio
5 5800 465 96% 42 59.2 68% 0.02 2.3% comp.sys.intel
6 2000 158 63% 197 402.1 68% 0.22 0.8% alt.individualism
7 9200 733 98% 16 145.6 67% 0.03 3.7% news.lists
8 4400 354 80% 3 3.6 67% 0.00 1.8% comp.sys.ibm.pc.net
9 9300 739 89% 47 68.3 61% 0.01 3.7% comp.editors
10 6500 516 98% 5 9.3 60% 0.00 2.6% comp.std.misc
11 18000 1425 89% 577 987.9 56% 0.09 7.1% misc.consumers
12 14000 1088 96% 73 183.0 54% 0.02 5.5% comp.ai
13 8200 656 98% 25 37.0 54% 0.01 3.3% comp.bugs.sys5
14 3200 252 84% 90 282.9 52% 0.13 1.3% talk.religion.newage
15 12000 952 99% 84 146.3 51% 0.02 4.8% comp.std.c
16 6500 518 98% 23 34.4 50% 0.01 2.6% comp.sys.dec
17 4000 318 98% 2 18.6 50% 0.01 1.6% comp.org.decus
18 3800 299 93% 10 13.6 50% 0.01 1.5% comp.ivideodisc
19 3400 271 79% 8 14.5 50% 0.01 1.4% comp.theory.cell-automata
20 9000 714 98% 34 49.5 47% 0.01 3.6% comp.bugs.4bsd
21 10000 794 98% 37 74.0 46% 0.01 4.0% comp.mail.misc
22 10000 832 96% 42 60.4 45% 0.01 4.2% comp.periphs
23 7100 563 98% 11 15.2 45% 0.00 2.8% comp.protocols.misc
24 4800 384 56% 73 135.6 45% 0.03 1.9% alt.drugs
25 9200 730 98% 70 154.9 44% 0.03 3.7% news.software.b
26 4200 335 96% 9 31.7 44% 0.01 1.7% comp.std.internat
27 17000 1376 98% 90 239.7 43% 0.02 6.9% news.admin
28 6900 550 88% 7 10.7 43% 0.00 2.8% rec.misc
29 2300 184 96% 24 32.9 43% 0.02 0.9% comp.sys.ti
30 5600 444 86% 12 17.8 42% 0.00 2.2% soc.misc
31 9500 756 96% 142 276.7 40% 0.05 3.8% sci.misc
32 4200 332 81% 5 8.8 40% 0.00 1.7% comp.periphs.printers
33 1800 145 85% 67 147.4 40% 0.12 0.7% rec.equestrian
34 2900 229 96% 33 102.7 39% 0.06 1.1% comp.sys.m6809
35 9000 718 96% 53 138.4 38% 0.03 3.6% comp.edu
36 1900 149 98% 8 9.5 38% 0.01 0.7% comp.bugs.2bsd
37 63 5 0% 92 154.2 38% 0.02 0.0% unix-pc.general
38 22000 1726 89% 249 268.6 37% 0.02 8.6% misc.forsale
39 13000 1019 96% 175 283.9 37% 0.04 5.1% sci.electronics
40 9600 767 98% 332 523.4 37% 0.09 3.8% comp.unix.xenix