[Stephan Whelan]

We actually utilise two products here - vBulletin and vbSEO. vBulletin provides the base functionality whilst vbSEO provides another product layer on top to aid us in making the forums as widely available via search engines, other forums, blogs and social bookmarking sites.

It does seem that the native redirection in the vBulletin software uses 301 redirects as well as extensive usage in the vbSEO product. Unfortunately i'm not sure that either vendor is likely to change their product behaviour at this present time. I can present to them the potential change but as with all software companies features and bugs are addressed based on customer requirements and how many customers require it.

If this is an issue reported by a larger percentage of DB forum users i'll consider taking it up with the vendors.