Can someone explains to me how using mod_rewrite would make the forum search engine friendly? Is that to do with not indexing long URls and scripts with long path information?

Is that a case of supplying the search engine with a url, say of:

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/forum/post/45677

and then the mod_rewrite would rewrite that URL to the correct url? Are we talking about making URLs more friendly?

Cheers

Wil

- wil