It helps, when posting website addresses, to surround them with < and > 
and no spaces between the angle brackets and the address.  That tells 
most email programs it's a live link and the whole thing between the < 
and the > is part of it.  If spaces are accidently added, they have to 
be taken out to make the web address valid.

That being said, some email programs can't deal with an address that is 
too long and so breaks from one line to another.  In that case, the < 
and > are still helpful, because they enclose everything that has to be 
copied and pasted into the browser address window.  IOW, no dangling f's :)

And some people advocate using <http://tinyurl.com/>  Personally I don't 
much like it for 'regular' kinds of links because if something is wrong 
you don't have any part of the original website's address to work from 
to figure out where it is.  But it's great for links to sites like major 
newspapers and news services like CNN.  They always seem to have LONG 
addresses that don't make much sense.

Holly

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