Retire the 800 Table Rule

[iMan]

I think everyone should make sites that are at a MINIMUM 1600 wide

Although I of course agree that no one should be alienated, I'm not sure that a little side scrolling will infuriate the 800x600 people so much that they will immediately close their window and go elsewhere... or write a letter or something.

It's not very difficult to stick to the 800 rule, but it would be nice to have some wiggle room... but with all LL rules out there threatening to hurl my ass to their blacklist every other sentence, if it says max 800 wide, I'm taking it literarily.
On the other hand, if it would say max 1024, that doesn't mean that all my tables will always be fixed at that big size.

It would be nice to know a bit more about this statistics though.
I mean, I've read many posts where traffic from certain geographic locations is unwanted. Could there be something similar with this?
Maybe 98% of those 16% is a group of people who will, for whatever reason, probably never ever pay for porn..
(Or maybe they're actually the group of folks who pay for 90% of all memberships online )

Anyone know about a more detailed study in this area?