balaji@bacall.UUCP (Balaji Narasimhan) (03/25/86)
Some of you may not have seen this message; it appeared on a few other newsgroups recently. >From: reid@glacier.ARPA (Brian Reid) Subject: USENET costs--who's paying for what? Message-ID: <5382@glacier.ARPA> Date: 16 Mar 86 08:53:09 GMT Date-Received: 18 Mar 86 12:31:39 GMT Organization: Stanford University, Computer Systems Lab Lines: 60 I've been taking readership data for USENET lately. This data consists of summaries from 100 sites about the number of readers of various newsgroups. I then collect it all back at glacier, add the traffic data, and produce this result. I'm not proposing to do anything with this information, but other people might. TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PER-READER COST +-- estimated total number of people who read this group, worldwide | +-- approximate $US per reader per month spent sending | | this group, worldwide. | | +-- (rating) percentage of the total user population | | | who read this group | | | +-- (share) percentage of newsreaders who read | | | | this group. V V V V 1403 $33.84 0.66 2.44 net.religion.christian 1348 24.15 0.63 2.34 net.philosophy 2505 21.65 1.17 4.35 net.politics 1789 18.51 0.84 3.11 net.religion 1211 16.98 0.57 2.10 net.abortion 3716 13.10 1.74 6.46 net.space 4982 11.91 2.33 8.66 net.singles 2807 11.51 1.32 4.88 mod.techreports 5326 10.94 2.50 9.25 net.women 4308 10.30 2.02 7.48 net.music 4087 9.55 1.91 7.10 net.micro.amiga 4569 9.51 2.14 7.94 net.sources.mac 12649 9.31 5.92 21.98 net.sources 6799 8.83 3.18 11.81 net.sources.games 1624 8.62 0.76 2.82 net.comics 1665 8.36 0.78 2.89 net.sport.hoops 2918 7.41 1.37 5.07 net.cse 10171 7.33 4.76 17.67 mod.sources 2505 7.15 1.17 4.35 net.startrek 3317 6.72 1.55 5.76 net.sf-lovers 4005 6.46 1.88 6.96 net.auto 867 6.36 0.41 1.51 net.sport.hockey 2518 5.33 1.18 4.38 net.kids 2463 5.28 1.15 4.28 mod.computers.vax 1486 5.28 0.70 2.58 net.ham-radio 2188 5.24 1.03 3.80 net.motss 1500 5.11 0.70 2.61 net.tv.drwho 1541 4.93 0.72 2.68 net.games.pbm 3124 4.87 1.46 5.43 net.micro.apple 5767 4.86 2.70 10.02 net.micro.pc 4858 4.74 2.28 8.44 net.movies * 1803 4.71 0.84 3.13 net.nlang.india 1403 4.63 0.66 2.44 net.cycle 6083 4.62 2.85 10.57 net.micro.mac 2766 4.49 1.30 4.81 net.music.classical 6331 4.19 2.97 11.00 net.arch 2408 4.08 1.13 4.18 net.nlang 2064 4.05 0.97 3.59 net.aviation 4143 4.03 1.94 7.20 net.news.group 5574 3.95 2.61 9.68 net.audio -- Brian Reid decwrl!glacier!reid Stanford reid@SU-Glacier.ARPA