From: studmffn@watnxt15.ucr.edu (Arvin Taneja)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: SCI ranked in top 40
Date: 8 Oct 92 04:18:09 GMT



Aw right,  SCI ranked in top 40 newsgroups.  It was the only cultural group to  
even rank.  Good Job Guys.

OP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY
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/rdr
        |     |     |      |      |      |    |      +-- Share: % of newsrders
        |     |     |      |      |      |    |      |   who read this group.
        V     V     V      V      V      V    V      V
   1 160000  5317   83%   980  1933.6    22%  0.02  11.5%  misc.jobs.offered 
   2 160000  5142   82%  1568  1909.7    40%  0.02  11.1%  misc.forsale 
   3 150000  4788   89%    10   157.9   100%  0.00  10.3%   
news.announce.newusers 
   4 120000  3910   68%  2556  6290.4    45%  0.07   8.4%  alt.sex 
   5 120000  3903   84%     4   101.6    75%  0.00   8.4%  news.answers 
   6 120000  3808   81%    65   191.8     0%  0.00   8.2%  rec.humor.funny 
   7  97000  3199   86%   981  1748.5    20%  0.03   6.9%  comp.windows.x 
   8  96000  3163   80%  2198  4434.5    13%  0.07   6.8%  rec.humor 
   9  93000  3078   70%    16   187.7     0%  0.00   6.6%  rec.arts.erotica 
  10  89000  2936   81%  2711  3114.8    17%  0.05   6.3%   
misc.forsale.computers 
  11  85000  2794   89%   798  1540.9    14%  0.03   6.0%  news.groups 
  12  84000  2751   72%  3394  4682.8    16%  0.08   5.9%  talk.bizarre 
  13  81000  2656   88%    98   602.6   100%  0.01   5.7%   
news.announce.newgroups 
  14  80000  2633   82%   535  1039.8     9%  0.02   5.7%  misc.jobs.misc 
  15  79000  2612   82%   753  1043.7    12%  0.02   5.6%  comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc 
  16  77000  2523   89%   395   543.5     3%  0.01   5.4%   
news.newusers.questions 
  17  74000  2444   90%   334   952.0    31%  0.02   5.3%  news.admin 
  18  72000  2360   48%   385  1863.8    11%  0.02   5.1%  alt.sex.stories 
  19  69000  2274   54%  1794 80523.7    12%  1.20   4.9%   
alt.binaries.pictures.erotica 
  20  68000  2241   86%  1120  2335.9    15%  0.06   4.8%  comp.lang.c 
  21  68000  2240   83%   664  1249.8    18%  0.03   4.8%  comp.graphics 
  22  67000  2193   64%  1446  3768.5     5%  0.07   4.7%  alt.sex.bondage 
  23  63000  2064   80%  1069  1644.6    11%  0.04   4.5%  sci.electronics 
  24  62000  2040   71%  2188  5052.9    24%  0.11   4.4%  soc.culture.indian 
  25  62000  2025   79%   361   346.3    34%  0.01   4.4%  misc.wanted 
  26  61000  2013   76%   125  5349.2     7%  0.13   4.3%  alt.sources 
  27  60000  1990   81%    70  3418.9     0%  0.09   4.3%  comp.binaries.ibm.pc 
  28  60000  1981   84%   202   508.6    35%  0.01   4.3%  comp.misc 
  29  60000  1964   85%  1007  1784.5     7%  0.05   4.2%  comp.lang.c++ 
  30  59000  1952   71%  2884  7317.2    53%  0.17   4.2%  talk.politics.misc 
  31  59000  1949   83%  2244  3911.7    14%  0.11   4.2%   
comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware 
  32  59000  1944   85%     -       -      -     -   4.2%   
news.announce.important 
  33  59000  1937   86%     -       -      -     -   4.2%   
news.announce.conferences 
  34  57000  1889   78%   238   420.5    30%  0.01   4.1%  misc.jobs.contract 
  35  57000  1870   68%   622  2643.3    47%  0.06   4.0%  alt.activism 
  36  56000  1856   76%  2460  5561.1    20%  0.15   4.0%  rec.arts.movies 
  37  56000  1845   84%   107  5541.9     5%  0.16   4.0%  comp.sources.misc 
  38  54000  1782   79%   954  1784.2    34%  0.05   3.8%  misc.consumers 
  39  53000  1736   87%   798  1590.6    14%  0.05   3.7%  comp.unix.questions 
  40  52000  1712   10%    20    22.7    11%  0.00   3.7%  oh.general 
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