Jim Perrin wrote:
True. But that number is very small compared to the rest of the population. I would (no offense to you) rather sacrifice a few users who are still using (forced or otherwise) caveman technology to connect to the internet than fragment the knowledgebase and require folks to join a dozen or so mailing lists. If/when the mailing list reaches critical mass and a split is required for sanity, then so be it. I don't think we're there yet, and I completely agree with Karanbir on this one.
However I think we should try to be accessible to the disadvantaged, GNU/Linux is about them too. Compressed digests sound as an option, given that text can be compressed very much. Is there any way to use compressed digests? I may even try using it myself.