Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. wrote: > > Jay Garcia wrote: > >>Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. wrote: >> >> >>><snews://secnews.netscape.com/netscape/netscape6/windows> >>><snews://secnews.netscape.com/netscape/netscape6/macintosh> >>><snews://secnews.netscape.com/netscape/netscape6/unix> >>> >>Curious ... >> >>Dave posted the same URL's basically but didn't include them in < > like >>you did. Why do you do that? I've asked this same question many times >>with no satisfactory responses. I also note that you do not enclose the >>URL's in your sig with < > ... ??? >> >>I notice no ill effects in any posts with or without the < > .... >> >>-- >>Jay Garcia - Netscape Champion >>Novell MCNE-5/CNI-Networking Technologies-OSI >>UFAQ - http://www.UFAQ.org >> > > Its something that was I was taught a long time ago. In Ye old days there > (Navigator 3.0.4a Gold Days) use to be a problem with run on links when > a linkwas typed within a paragraph. I was told I could avoid run on links > by breaking up a sentence with a url Link by using the <> around URL's > > The reason I don't use them in the ones below is that there is no other > text around either side of each link which use hard returns for each line. > If they were all part of the same line I would have put the <> around them > distinguish each link. >
Well, I never did that ever since the beginning of NS in late 1994 with v0.9 ... Have never seen a problem NOT using the < > -- Jay Garcia - Netscape Champion Novell MCNE-5/CNI-Networking Technologies-OSI UFAQ - http://www.UFAQ.org
