Just one small point with regards to Joe's excellent suggestion. Very occasionally, links to threads are given in the Help Forum. These still require the "http://www.mudcat.org" bit to work.

As for the quotes, I will leave that to someone more qualified in HTML to be the judge but my understanding is that dropping the quotes is non-standard HTML which could mean that some browser may not interpret the link correctly (not that I am aware of a browser that fails on this). If quotes are used, it has to be both: the most common cause of a locked up thread for Netscape users is a missing closing quote on a link.

Jon