Netscape recognizes both of your examples.

George

Scott wrote:
> In article >,
> George Shirley > wrote:
>
>
>>This is the URL clicking on it took me to. I assume it could be the same
>>as above but don't know. It was an Amazon page selling the USDA guide to
>>canning in paperback.
>
>
> OK, but did enclosing the URL in the angle brackets preserve the URL,
> as compared to not using them? That's what I'd meant about using them...
> some newsreaders handle the links them correctly without, but all do so
> with. My newsreader can handle them, but somehow a null character often
> gets added at the beginning when it gets to the browser.
> If "http://" is present at the beginning, it works fine (absent a
> multi-line URL), but if it just starts "www.domain.com" then it's not
> automatically recognized properly.
>