>Does anybody see any difference in the two URLs (with and without <>)
>above?

I see no difference in my Outlook Express, but I have found that enclosing 
links in brackets meets with varying success, as in it doesn't guarantee 
that the link won't always wrap without breaking. I do not know what the 
difference is, but in this case both links occupied three lines, with all 
three lines being colour coded as being a link, whereas the OPs link never 
did. 

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