On 17 Oct 2006, at 15:11, Michael Winter wrote: > > On Oct 16, 2006, at 6:02 PM, Linda wrote: > >> Or use angle brackets in a plain-text message -- which doesn't get >> mangled >> as often. >> <http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp? >> id=1160730321685> > > Exactly. Seems as soon as email apps got smart enough to handle the > "error" when people forgot to bracket URLs, people stopped adding > them all the time (or at all). Yes, the "new way" is better, but > the "old way" is still more reliable. > > And I also agree on being able to see where a URL is pointing. So you know what you are going to get from just seeing a URL? J