Not directly related to html, but I was curious about the following.
When you want to include the URL of a page in a usenet message, some
people add less-then and greater-then signs to the URL (like this:
<
http://www.example.com>), others don't (like this:
http://www.example.com). What is the meaning of this, if any, or what is
accepted etiquette for the use of them?
http://www.w3.org/Addressing/rfc1738.txt
RFC 1738 Uniform Resource Locators (URL) December 1994
APPENDIX: Recommendations for URLs in Context
URIs, including URLs, are intended to be transmitted through
protocols which provide a context for their interpretation.
In some cases, it will be necessary to distinguish URLs from other
possible data structures in a syntactic structure. In this case, is
recommended that URLs be preceeded with a prefix consisting of the
characters "URL:". For example, this prefix may be used to
distinguish URLs from other kinds of URIs.
In addition, there are many occasions when URLs are included in other
kinds of text; examples include electronic mail, USENET news
messages, or printed on paper. In such cases, it is convenient to
have a separate syntactic wrapper that delimits the URL and separates
it from the rest of the text, and in particular from punctuation
marks that might be mistaken for part of the URL. For this purpose,
is recommended that angle brackets ("<" and ">"), along with the
prefix "URL:", be used to delimit the boundaries of the URL. This
wrapper does not form part of the URL and should not be used in
contexts in which delimiters are already specified.