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- From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid)
- Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups
- Subject: TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY AMOUNT OF CROSSPOSTING (DEC 92)
- Date: 1 Jan 1993 20:42:16 GMT
- Organization: DEC Network Systems Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif., USA
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- Keywords: arbitron, statistics
- Originator: reid@torrey.pa.dec.com
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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/rdr
- | | | | | | | +-- Share: % of newsrders
- | | | | | | | | who read this group.
- V V V V V V V V
- 1 93000 2594 91% 84 840.5 100% 0.02 5.5% news.announce.newgroups
- 2 12000 348 56% 25 45.2 92% 0.00 0.7% alt.industrial
- 3 18000 493 54% 157 505.0 90% 0.03 1.1% alt.politics.elections
- 4 14000 401 60% 335 1014.2 87% 0.08 0.9% alt.discrimination
- 5 55000 1520 76% 72 141.7 85% 0.00 3.2% news.admin
- 6 14000 380 39% 71 300.6 84% 0.02 0.8% comp.os.linux.announce
- 7 15000 429 43% 38 107.2 83% 0.01 0.9% alt.books.reviews
- 8 38000 1064 50% 303 734.9 82% 0.02 2.3% alt.abortion.inequity
- 9 29000 800 79% 100 277.1 80% 0.01 1.7% misc.headlines
- 10 21000 580 70% 339 989.3 79% 0.06 1.2% talk.politics.theory
- 11 27000 755 86% 38 100.5 78% 0.01 1.6% comp.mail.headers
- 12 15000 404 58% 175 709.8 78% 0.05 0.9% alt.society.civil-liberty
- 13 22000 599 82% 33 58.4 77% 0.00 1.3% comp.lsi
- 14 32000 880 80% 26 61.5 76% 0.00 1.9% comp.admin.policy
- 15 22000 608 69% 368 828.3 75% 0.05 1.3% talk.religion.newage
- 16 2500 71 29% 34 37.4 72% 0.01 0.2% alt.who.is.bob
- 17 33000 916 76% 264 766.4 71% 0.03 2.0% misc.education
- 18 23000 640 71% 243 856.6 69% 0.05 1.4% talk.philosophy.misc
- 19 16000 435 10% 38 149.7 69% 0.00 0.9% ut.general
- 20 7700 214 18% 465 1154.8 67% 0.05 0.5% can.general
- 21 25000 684 83% 242 582.7 65% 0.04 1.5% comp.std.internat
- 22 35000 980 74% 379 1031.6 63% 0.04 2.1% soc.college
- 23 63000 1761 73% 1778 5320.4 62% 0.11 3.8% talk.politics.misc
- 24 19000 517 58% 1624 4841.1 62% 0.27 1.1% alt.rush-limbaugh
- 25 39000 1090 66% 187 403.1 60% 0.01 2.3% alt.censorship
- 26 23000 649 68% 285 835.8 60% 0.05 1.4% soc.culture.canada
- 27 27000 739 84% 12 23.1 58% 0.00 1.6% comp.windows.news
- 28 22000 599 62% 204 654.8 58% 0.03 1.3% alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk
- 29 11000 313 15% 12 18.0 58% 0.00 0.7% ny.general
- 30 83000 2324 69% 303 1545.3 57% 0.02 5.0% alt.activism
- 31 41000 1134 76% 271 679.0 57% 0.02 2.4% soc.men
- 32 40000 1105 69% 642 6001.3 57% 0.19 2.4% alt.conspiracy
- 33 2500 71 11% 21 34.4 55% 0.00 0.2% de.comp.gnu
- 34 2100 58 9% 33 39.7 55% 0.00 0.1% ba.market
- 35 48000 1336 87% 13 25.7 54% 0.00 2.8% comp.sources.d
- 36 14000 392 54% 72 255.5 54% 0.02 0.8% alt.dads-rights
- 37 3300 91 29% 13 43.5 54% 0.01 0.2% sci.chem.organomet
- 38 24000 667 83% 28 50.3 52% 0.00 1.4% comp.bugs.sys5
- 39 17000 482 53% 49 75.1 52% 0.00 1.0% alt.books.technical
- 40 58000 1625 91% 72 192.6 51% 0.01 3.5% news.misc
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