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Scott > wrote:

>In article >,
> George Shirley > wrote:
>
>> Depends on your newsreader Scott. I use Netscape 7.xx and the url's turn
>> up in blue type and you just click them. The brackets aren't really needed.

>
>I don't dispute that some newsreaders don't need it; I simply said that
>using "< >" works with ALL newsreaders, rather than just many.
>
>BTW, how does Netscape treat this link:
>
>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...22499/sr=8-2/r
>ef=sr_8_xs_ap_i2_xgl14/102-5358893-3277729?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
>
>also as compared to this:
>
>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...d=1100922499/s
>r=8-2/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i2_xgl14/102-5358893-3277729?v=glance&s=books&n=5078
>46


In Agent the URL's are split. One way I get around this if I want to
launch it is to "reply" and then remove the line feed and extraneous
characters.
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