Can we set up a "db dumps by mail" system, for people to get a full db dump on a hard drive by mail? That's the most efficient way to get the dumps out to people on slow connections.
We have done this for the <80GB of content on aduni.org for a few years; charging a bit over the cost of materials for making each drive, to support our bandwidth. It has been extremely popular, particularly in Asia... I am sure the same would be true of a similary WP/WM program.
In particular, two people (Gordon Joly and Fernanda Viegas) have asked me in the last week if there were such an option.
-- ++SJ