I'd argue that the world has moved on since 1998. We live in a world full of URL parsers of various abilities, and doggedly enclosing URLs in angle brackets bec

I'd argue that the world has moved on since 1998. We live in a world full of URL parsers of various abilities, and doggedly enclosing URLs in angle brackets because of a memo written so long ago it also references gopher seems stubborn to no obvious gain. Given the state of the modern internet, I definitely wouldn't consider angle brackets to be the best way to delimit URLs.