Hi, Gargoyle - there are certain situations in links where quotes serve a purpose, but they are rarely needed. I recommend that people leave off the quotes because if you omit the second quotation marks and don't close the quotes within the link, you goof up the whole thread until I can get in there with my handy-dandy fixit button. Max has made it so most HTML mistakes don't affect subsequent messages, but the missing quotation marks still cause a problem. So, it's better to leave them out.
Same thing with the <p> mark for double-spacing between paragraphs or stanzas. It works, but if you copy stuff from the forum and paste into most word processors, the <p> leaves only a single space, and the stanzas get all squashed together. Better to use a double <br><br> mark.
-Joe Offer-