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[Christian Robottom Reis <kiko@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 03:08:54PM +0100, David Allouche wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 13:53, Curtis Hovey <sinzui.is@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Why can't +me be directly substituted for ~your-name.
> >
> > I don't see any reason it cannot be. The reason why it is subordinate
> > to /people/ is because that is the collection of people.
> 
> Can this be faithfully rephrased as: "it was easier to the programmer
> to do it the way it is, but there's no technical or social reason why
> it cannot be done in the way that you propose, which I acknowledge is
> easier to the user"?

It's just a historical URL artifact. Somebody just file a bug to get
/+me to redirect to ~you and we'll get it fixed.
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