ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) (07/05/90)
Here are the news statistics for June 1990. I have listed the top 10
newsgroups, and all the os groups. For the complete listing, see news.lists.
Comp.os.minix now has 25000 readers worldwide!
Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)
+-- 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 130000 3358 78% 1021 1998.6 15% 0.02 12.7% alt.sex
2 120000 3149 92% 66 167.8 0% 0.00 11.9% rec.humor.funny
3 120000 3117 94% 267 590.1 7% 0.01 11.8% misc.jobs.offered
4 110000 2889 93% 746 851.5 28% 0.01 10.9% misc.forsale
5 100000 2668 92% 294 336.2 41% 0.00 10.1% misc.wanted
6 93000 2390 96% 39 181.8 16% 0.00 9.0% news.announce.conf
7 93000 2390 95% 1216 1916.2 13% 0.03 9.0% comp.sys.ibm.pc
8 84000 2151 91% 970 1445.3 9% 0.02 8.1% rec.humor
9 78000 1998 96% 636 1143.8 17% 0.02 7.5% comp.unix.questions
10 76000 1946 96% 710 1254.8 21% 0.02 7.3% news.groups
112 30000 774 87% 21 24.3 20% 0.00 2.9% comp.os.mach
165 25000 633 92% 323 1000.0 2% 0.06 2.4% comp.os.minix
172 24000 615 92% 1009 2062.2 4% 0.12 2.3% comp.os.vms
181 23000 596 92% 31 79.8 0% 0.00 2.2% comp.os.misc
224 20000 518 91% 22 65.4 0% 0.00 2.0% comp.os.research
246 19000 478 86% 84 100.6 5% 0.01 1.8% comp.os.os2
366 13000 320 90% 93 105.3 2% 0.01 1.2% comp.os.cpm
402 11000 272 90% 34 116.9 22% 0.01 1.0% comp.os.os9
447 9300 237 90% 3 2.3 0% 0.00 0.9% comp.os.xinu
457 9000 231 78% 2 2.1 0% 0.00 0.9% comp.os.v
526 6100 156 83% 2 2.1 0% 0.00 0.6% comp.os.aos
531 5900 150 22% 17 20.8 6% 0.00 0.6% comp.os.msdos.programmer
542 5300 135 81% 10 14.7 0% 0.00 0.5% comp.os.rsts
546 5000 129 22% 6 7.0 17% 0.00 0.5% comp.os.msdos.misc
555 4700 121 22% 12 15.3 75% 0.00 0.5% comp.os.msdos.apps