Subject: TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY AMOUNT OF CROSSPOSTING (JUN 95) 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 (megabytes per month) | | | | | +-- Crossposting percentage | | | | | | +-- Cost ratio: $US/month/rdr | | | | | | | +-- Share: % of newsrders | | | | | | | | who read this group. V V V V V V V V 1 87000 451 49% 699 0.0 100% 0.00 0.8% alt.answers 2 140000 502 70% 613 0.3 98% 0.00 0.9% comp.answers 3 5600 62 23% 166 0.0 97% 0.00 0.1% alt.bonehead.joel-furr 4 19000 120 39% 49 0.0 96% 0.00 0.2% news.admin 5 19000 98 49% 1363 0.1 96% 0.00 0.2% biz.clarinet.sample 6 20000 112 44% 520 0.1 94% 0.00 0.2% alt.politics.sex 7 15000 80 46% 15 0.0 93% 0.00 0.1% comp.os.386bsd.development 8 8900 86 26% 1445 0.3 93% 0.01 0.2% alt.feminazis 9 4900 58 21% 137 0.0 92% 0.00 0.1% alt.culture.theory 10 2800 67 10% 38 0.0 92% 0.00 0.1% alt.sex.graphics 11 95000 318 76% 331 0.1 91% 0.00 0.6% comp.admin.policy 12 20000 117 43% 115 0.0 90% 0.00 0.2% alt.security.ripem 13 16000 89 45% 694 0.2 90% 0.00 0.2% alt.fan.ronald-reagan 14 12000 93 33% 318 0.1 90% 0.00 0.2% alt.freaks 15 10000 67 38% 1856 0.5 89% 0.02 0.1% alt.fan.g-gordon-liddy 16 27000 149 45% 5507 2.6 88% 0.04 0.3% alt.politics.radical-left 17 15000 99 39% 91 0.0 88% 0.00 0.2% comp.os.linux.development 18 39000 287 35% 733 0.1 87% 0.00 0.5% alt.sex.pictures.d 19 17000 99 44% 2721 1.6 86% 0.04 0.2% alt.society.conservatism 20 11000 73 40% 103 0.0 86% 0.00 0.1% comp.graphics.api.pexlib 21 16000 93 44% 6261 3.1 85% 0.08 0.2% talk.politics.libertarian 22 54000 209 66% 1767 1.3 84% 0.01 0.4% soc.culture.europe 23 37000 198 47% 1157 0.5 84% 0.01 0.4% alt.wired 24 11000 90 30% 1326 0.7 84% 0.02 0.2% alt.christnet.theology 25 22000 117 48% 4661 3.0 83% 0.06 0.2% alt.politics.usa.constitution 26 14000 76 46% 86 0.0 83% 0.00 0.1% alt.privacy.clipper 27 3100 79 10% 226 0.1 83% 0.00 0.1% can.taxes 28 5500 59 24% 64 0.0 82% 0.00 0.1% alt.techno-shamanism 29 39000 199 50% 5997 4.3 79% 0.05 0.4% alt.politics.libertarian 30 37000 173 55% 244 0.1 79% 0.00 0.3% alt.religion.computers 31 8900 79 28% 1270 1.0 79% 0.03 0.1% eunet.politics 32 28000 166 42% 1660 1.1 77% 0.01 0.3% alt.usenet.kooks 33 12000 114 26% 594 0.4 77% 0.01 0.2% alt.christnet.sex 34 110000 385 75% 5418 3.9 76% 0.02 0.7% misc.legal 35 73000 283 66% 4890 3.6 76% 0.03 0.5% soc.culture.usa 36 18000 179 25% 3576 0.8 76% 0.01 0.3% alt.sex.telephone 37 6300 70 23% 457 0.3 76% 0.01 0.1% ca.environment 38 120000 433 70% 6946 4.2 75% 0.02 0.8% soc.women 39 11000 71 41% 272 0.1 75% 0.00 0.1% alt.surrealism 40 6800 75 23% 125 0.6 75% 0.02 0.1% alt.fan.tonya-harding.whack.whack.whack