Robin_reala - 12:45 pm on Jun 30, 2006 (gmt 0)

I fail to see why we're having this discussion :) For SEO, it's well known that friendly URIs help. For development, a decent URI structure replicates the internal IA. For users, it helps when sending emails, and for the few of us (like me) who do hack URIs. I just can't see any downsides.