Drupal became popular because it made a lot of assumptions. It assumed, for example, that you want a page on your website that displays all promoted and published content in reverse chronological order with teasers. This is the path q=node. There are other paths that display content listings (taxonomy module is full of them), but most (all?) of the others can be turned off. q=node stands out as the shining example of a content listing path that is _required_ by core, and can't be turned off. This has consequences: http://www.flickr.com/photos/43545096@N00/3287922589/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/robertdouglass/3238757628/ I would like to argue that the required bits of core should not offer any paths that display content listings, and that the behavior of q=node in the case that no content is published/promoted is particularly damaging and should be removed. The issue: http://drupal.org/node/545758 -Robert