On Wed, 3 Nov 2010 03:51:48 +0430, "Peter Pan"
<PeterPan@NOSPAMMarcAlan.Info> wrote:

>
>"Paul Miner" <pminer@elrancho.invalid> wrote in message
>news:024pc6lnpf89jt46kccf3uq4lrls43mcuq@4ax.com.. .
>> On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 15:01:41 -0400, gerry <gerrrry__net@gogood.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>[original post is likely clipped to save bandwidth]
>>>On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 13:30:31 -0700, Steve Sobol <sjsobol@JustThe.net>
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>>In article <08mrb6djdng5v3u2bqcv02othm7tg216v1@4ax.com>,
>>>>pminer@elrancho.invalid says...
>>>>
>>>>> >YMMV. When I clicked the link I got the trailing quote.
>>>>> >
>>>>> >(I'm using MicroPlanet Gravity on Windows Vista SP2)
>>>>>
>>>>> The < and > brackets work universally, I'm told.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Yes, use of < and > is a better bet.
>>>
>>>
>>>better but not always, some news readers wrap long URLs and get
>>>confused.
>>
>> Which newsreader gets confused by URLs enclosed in < and > characters?
>>
>>>Agent gladly disposes of the quotes, not considering them part or a URL
>>>reference. Of course the standard URL link has quotes.
>>>
>>>href="http://some.network/file.html"
>>
>> No, that's a bit of HTML and has nothing to do with Usenet.
>>
>> --
>> Paul Miner
>
>
>far as i know, while the <> signs usually work, google groups ignores them
>and breaks url's... problem seems to also happen when someone replies and
>the url is in the reply....

Google Groups is an abomination though, so I don't worry too much
about it. Many people simply filter posts from there.

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Paul Miner