On Feb 11, 7:46 am, pdimage <[email protected]> wrote:

>     I wondered about the long two line link before I posted it but I'm not
> too certain about the conventions for links in plain text mailings. I
> thought - and we all know what thought did - a long link which makes more
> than one line is ok if unhyphenated during the paste and then enclosed by
> <>.

The <> is one of the documented conventions for enclosing links in
text postings.  I don't remember where it's documented, but someone
pointed it out in teh last few weeks in one of the lists I read.
There isn't much in the way of standards for web based fora, but the
internet had standards for text posting long before the web came
along.

So, if your browser or email client follows proper convention, it
won't break a link enclosed in <>.   However, clearly the programmers
for Google Groups don't know about standards because links shown on
their web interface are always broken if they cover more than one
line.

Jeff Walther

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