Top 40 Newsgroups in Order by Percentage of Crossposting (Jun 95)

A companion page 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 (megabytes 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  194968   451 49%   699    0.0 100%   0.00  0.8% alt.answers
    2  217015   502 70%   613    0.3 98%   0.01  0.9% comp.answers
    3   46256   107 21%   250    0.0 98%   0.00  0.2% clari.news.disaster
    4   26802    62 23%   166    0.0 97%   0.00  0.1% alt.bonehead.joel-furr
    5   51876   120 39%    49    0.0 96%   0.00  0.2% news.admin
    6   42365    98 49%  1363    0.1 96%   0.00  0.2% biz.clarinet.sample
    7   48417   112 44%   520    0.1 94%   0.00  0.2% alt.politics.sex
    8   34584    80 46%    15    0.0 93%   0.00  0.1% comp.os.386bsd.development
    9   37177    86 26%  1445    0.3 93%   0.00  0.2% alt.feminazis
   10   25073    58 21%   137    0.0 92%   0.00  0.1% alt.culture.theory
   11   28964    67 10%    38    0.0 92%   0.00  0.1% alt.sex.graphics
   12  137471   318 76%   331    0.1 91%   0.00  0.6% comp.admin.policy
   13  109804   254 42%    10    0.0 90%   0.00  0.5% alt.binaries.pictures.fine-art.d
   14   50579   117 43%   115    0.0 90%   0.00  0.2% alt.security.ripem
   15   38474    89 45%   694    0.2 90%   0.00  0.2% alt.fan.ronald-reagan
   16   40204    93 33%   318    0.1 90%   0.00  0.2% alt.freaks
   17   28964    67 38%  1856    0.5 89%   0.01  0.1% alt.fan.g-gordon-liddy
   18   29828    69 20%   775    0.2 89%   0.00  0.1% clari.news.terrorism
   19   64412   149 45%  5507    2.6 88%   0.04  0.3% alt.politics.radical-left
   20   42797    99 39%    91    0.0 88%   0.00  0.2% comp.os.linux.development
   21   37610    87 21%  1290    0.4 88%   0.00  0.2% clari.biz.economy.world
   22  124070   287 35%   733    0.1 87%   0.00  0.5% alt.sex.pictures.d
   23   42797    99 44%  2721    1.6 86%   0.03  0.2% alt.society.conservatism
   24   31558    73 40%   103    0.0 86%   0.00  0.1% comp.graphics.api.pexlib
   25   40204    93 44%  6261    3.1 85%   0.05  0.2% talk.politics.libertarian
   26   90351   209 66%  1767    1.3 84%   0.03  0.4% soc.culture.europe
   27   85595   198 47%  1157    0.5 84%   0.01  0.4% alt.wired
   28   38907    90 30%  1326    0.7 84%   0.01  0.2% alt.christnet.theology
   29   50579   117 48%  4661    3.0 83%   0.05  0.2% alt.politics.usa.constitution
   30   32854    76 46%    86    0.0 83%   0.00  0.1% alt.privacy.clipper
   31   25505    59 24%    64    0.0 82%   0.00  0.1% alt.techno-shamanism
   32   86028   199 50%  5997    4.3 79%   0.08  0.4% alt.politics.libertarian
   33   74788   173 55%   244    0.1 79%   0.00  0.3% alt.religion.computers
   34   71762   166 42%  1660    1.1 77%   0.02  0.3% alt.usenet.kooks
   35   49282   114 26%   594    0.4 77%   0.00  0.2% alt.christnet.sex
   36  166436   385 75%  5418    3.9 76%   0.11  0.7% misc.legal
   37  122341   283 66%  4890    3.6 76%   0.09  0.5% soc.culture.usa
   38   77382   179 25%  3576    0.8 76%   0.01  0.3% alt.sex.telephone
   39  187186   433 70%  6946    4.2 75%   0.11  0.8% soc.women
   40   30693    71 41%   272    0.1 75%   0.00  0.1% alt.surrealism