Lee wrote:
Red Green wrote:

Take a gander at this some time: http://tinyurl.com

I'd thought about using that, but to be honest, I generally won't
click on a tiny url in a newsgroup unless I really "know" the poster
(potential malware sites) and wasn't sure if others would either. So I
figured including the sku# was a sort of compromise in case some
people's newsreaders couldn't deal with the link. (Mine kept it intact
when posted).

But thanks for the reminder; maybe next time I should do a tiny url in
addition to the long string.

Not necessary. If you surround your link with angle-brackets " " the
link will render appropriately in a newsreader.

I don't know, nor do I care, how it might work in Google Groups.