if you htaccess.txt to .htaccess would digitalpoint forum generat in HTML pages, do you thinks so and search engine will add all your pages.
If it's not broken, why fix it!! The archive does do that. http://forums.digitalpoint.com/arch...er-domain-names-for-seo-purposes-/t-3110.html
This has been suggested before, but it just looks ugly to Shawn, he prefers them this way. Plus, the purpose is solved anyways, all the pages are indexed even with these URLs. So, no need i guess. But it might improve the SERPs. my2c