Slash at the end of every URL, why?

[den15b]

Ok, I have just discussed this with a fellow drupal user, he says the same as I thought, a trailing slash is considered a totaly different directory, not good for SEO he states (his opinion). That aside, I do have mod_rewrite, I know some of you here have no trailing slashes in your URL's, but I am getting it with fancy url's set, though like I said, I am using custom permalink structure to avoid it, I will take your advice & try a later RC version, but RC1 was the only one I could find.

Could some one please post a link to the latest RC, Thankyou

Denis

P.S. I have a suggestion to do away with the meta key words field & instead replace it with title field, I know I can modify it to do that, but the average user wouldn't know how to do it, meta keywords are useless these days, & because the author of the program says that GS has nothing it shouldn't, well!...................