[LINK] E-mail question

[Ivan Trundle]

Linkers

Some time ago, there was discussion about the use of "<" and ">" to  
wrap weblink references in e-mail messages.

Can anyone enlighten me as to the usefulness/appropriateness/ 
standards applicability of wrapping web references this way, and if  
it is still considered to be a Good Thing?

I've not found any RFC relating to the use of less-than/greater-than  
symbols which purportedly permit long URLs to remain 'clickable' even  
after being wrapped at the 80-character-plus mark.

For example, if I was to make a reference to a URL like this in a  
plain text e-mail mesage:

http://www.tomw.net.au/icantbelieve/thatthisisgoingtowork/ 
butiminterested/tosee/index.html

...on its own it might suffer from being 'unclickable' if wrapped to  
two lines. However, if it were wrapped like so:

<http://www.tomw.net.au/icantbelieve/thatthisisgoingtowork/ 
butiminterested/tosee/
index.html>

...then it purportedly avoids losing any characters of the URL even  
if wrapped in a message to two lines (I've cut it deliberately).

LIght shedding on the matter, anyone?

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