jms@antares.UUCP (joe smith) (12/05/88)
Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups Subject: TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY TRAFFIC VOLUME (NOV 88) Message-ID: <16538@decwrl.dec.com> Date: 1 Dec 88 11:52:43 GMT Sender: reid@decwrl.dec.com Organization: DEC Western Research Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif., USA TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY TRAFFIC VOLUME +-- 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 [lines deleted] 7 18000 1233 87% 1087 2202.6 2% 0.20 5.0% rec.arts.startrek 10 18000 1197 96% 1190 2039.1 5% 0.20 4.8% comp.sys.amiga 11 27000 1819 97% 1237 2029.9 14% 0.13 7.3% comp.sys.mac 16 41000 2759 96% 1009 1583.6 10% 0.07 11.1% comp.sys.ibm.pc ^^^^^^ Sometimes I dread reading news. :-) There are always so many articles in comp.sys.amiga and it takes so long to read. :-) How can I get any work done when there is so much to read. :-) My wife is going to kill me! -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | TYMNET:JMS@F29 CA:"POPJ P," UUCP:{ames|pyramid}oliveb!tymix!antares!jms | | INTERNET:(Real Soon Now) Amiga Hacker PHONE:Joe Smith @ (408)922-6220 | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+