fadden@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Andy McFadden) (10/02/89)
Thought you might find this interesting... ----- >Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PER-READER COST 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 3800 173 85% 628 1284.5 0% 0.52 0.7% misc.handicap 19 12000 549 96% 1052 1565.4 1% 0.23 2.3% comp.sys.apple (comp.sys.mac and comp.binaries.mac are not on this list ) TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY 1 70000 3170 94% 52 117.6 0% 0.00 13.5% rec.humor.funny 12 41000 1860 96% 1776 2769.3 10% 0.12 7.9% comp.sys.mac 40 25000 1140 95% 85 2447.2 0% 0.17 4.9% comp.binaries.mac (comp.sys.apple and comp.binaries.apple2 are not on this list) -- fadden@cory.berkeley.edu (Andy McFadden) ...!ucbvax!cory!fadden